Members of the Shannon Rovers bagpipe corps visited Chicago City Hall to help introduce the queen for this year’s official St. Patrick’s Parade downtown. Claire Cahill is a native of Elmhurst who now ...

Lots to write about this week! First off, I want to congratulate Caitríona Fee (concertina) and Colin Kadis (accordion), the ...

Dolly Parton celebrated her 80th trip around the sun on Monday, Jan. 19 and shared a video to Instagram of herself getting ...

The NY Irish Center will present the CROSSROADS CONCERTS series, showcasing global-Irish music influences, until June.

Here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year, from TradFest and Electric Picnic to West Cork Literary ...

More power to his elbow as uilleann pipe maker and musician Aodán MacSéafraidh celebrates three decades of creating the pipes ...

Okay, okay, it’s 2026 and the future is bright, the future is playing traditional music. This year promises to be a milestone in the burgeoning popularity of all kinds of traditional music, from the ...

We're starting a new year and the first blog post of 2026 will be about music, the universal language par excellence. In 1989, my favorite musical group, Milladoiro, released the album "Castellum ...

When he first started work as the music teacher for the Athena-Weston School District, Jacob Gau had to give himself a crash course in the bagpipes. Now in his second year, Gau has moved onto printing ...

For reasons involving a class trip and a large, passive-aggressive pipe band who expressed their displeasure about sharing space with a couple dozen rowdy students by staging sunrise practice sessions ...

Hundreds gathered in the golden warmth of an autumn afternoon on Sunday for a multi-generational celebration of nature. Bagpipes & Bonfire, generally held on the last Sunday in September, is Lake ...

A home game on the road in Dublin, Ireland means an early start back in Pittsburgh as the Steelers take on the Minnesota Vikings on September 28th. With a 9:30 a.m. kick off, your game day menu may ...