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Folk songs from Mexico and Venezuela feature this week on En Casa, along with a spiritual guitar instrumental from Argentina.

Nineteen years ago, Keith Murphy and his wife had just started to work with the Brattleboro Music Center, developing the ...

Socks in the Frying Pan, a critically acclaimed trio from Ennis, County Clare—widely regarded as the heartland of Irish traditional music—has established itself as a dominant force in the genre since ...

That U.S.-hip-sounding line, strangely enough, is as British as “jolly good,” or “raw-ther.” It describes a musical fad that has washed over Britain. “Trad” is traditional jazz, the 1920s variety now ...

The Late Late Show has announced a bumper lineup for their first-ever trad special. Host Patrick Kielty returns for the first show of the year on Friday night, and for the first time, there’ll be the ...

SHEFFIELD — Growing up in London, fiddle player Kevin Burke received the best education in Irish traditional music that anyone could ask for. When Burke came of age in the 1960s, the influx of Irish ...

TradFest, Ireland’s largest traditional music festival, returns Jan. 21-25 in multiple locations, including Dublin. (tradfest ...

HONDA.COM. THE CLASSIC TRADITIONAL BAND FROM ABENAKI NATION HAS BIG PLANS TO SHARE AND TO PRESERVE SOME OF THEIR HISTORY. THEY’RE BUILDING A CULTURAL CENTER, A SMALL VILLAGE IN CLAREMONT AND EVEN A ...

There's the sound of banjos, fiddles and tin whistles everywhere, as Irish trad music enjoys a roaring resurgence. It's resonating "fiercely" with young people, who "roar out the lyrics" in pubs under ...