The vibrant skirl of pipe music echoed throughout the Vacaville Town Square Library on a stormy Thursday. Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Irish uilleann pipe musician, David Winter of Berkeley ...

The Kennedy Center's ambitious "Ireland 100" festival continued Saturday evening with a strangely cobbled-together performance by Camerata Ireland (a chamber orchestra), Codetta (a small professional ...

A coffin with a glass lid, an IRA safe house and a woman with a drink problem who left her six children - these are just some of the unlikely ingredients of Louise Mulcahy's highly entertaining ...

London, UK—Troy Donockley has built up a formidable reputation as both a composer/arranger and as a multi-instrumental musician/performer. He is a leading virtuoso of the Uilleann Pipes (and the Low ...

Fermoy-native Uilleann Pipe master David Hegarty tells Dónal Nolan of the instrument's timeless appeal and its extraordinary heritage in the southwest David Hegarty playing his beloved Uilleann Pipes, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Cait Fahy By the time Maria Somerville began work on Luster, her debut LP for 4AD, she’d ...

What do John Lennon, "Braveheart," and UNESCO all have in common? Surprisingly, the famed Irish instrument the uilleann pipes. The traditional Irish instrument, the uilleann pipes, has received the ...

The County Wicklow Tinoil (Uilleann Pipes Festival) will take place on Friday and Saturday, February 27 and 28, in the Glendalough Hotel.This is the tenth year of the festival and it continues to go ...

The old expression about mighty oaks growing from small acorns is a very useful one when referring to a new music book about to be published this month by Jawbone Press. It is an illuminating new ...

As the lineup shifted over the years, Moloney remained a constant in the band, playing the tin whistle and uilleann pipes (Redferns) Paddy Moloney, who helped revive traditional Irish music as the ...

There is perhaps no sound so recognizable as the first drone of a bagpipe. That sustained note acts as harmony to the melody, which is fingered by the piper on the chanter. These days, bagpipes are ...