The music conjures up a mystical image of the atmosphere of long-ago days, a journey back into the roots of Celtic culture. Using the instruments native to Ireland such as the fiddle, harp and guitar ...

An hour before he went on stage to the cheers of 15,000 people at the 3Arena in Dublin on Saturday night for the second of ...

The premiere winter festival and international celebration of Celtic music will illuminate stages across Glasgow ...

Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825–96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857–9, before he embarked ...

Started in 1887 to raise funds for poor Irish families in Scotland, the Irish can still be felt on Celtic Park today in the Irish folk and rebel ballads sung and the flags that flutter above the ...

Then - and this is what really sets the Ballads apart - MacColl wrote songs inspired by the stories, with music directed by Peggy Seeger and performed by orchestral and folk musicians. A new ...

On Monday, Oct. 21, through Sunday, Oct. 27, the Galway Bay Irish Restaurant, Pub & Gifts, located at 880 Point Brown Ave. NE ...

Left-back Alex Valle and his entourage rejected the chance for Celtic to insert a buy option in his loan from Barcelona to keep their options open beyond his 12 months in Glasgow. (Sport via Daily ...

Celtic Thunder, the renowned Irish music group, is returning to Indianapolis as part of their latest tour, Odyssey. Lead ...

A ballad is a type of poem that was traditionally set to music. The word ‘ballad’ comes from the Latin ‘ballare’ which means to dance – it’s also where the word ‘ballet’ comes from.

Opening for the Barra MacNeils will be Sudbury’s Chad Rivette, who has amassed 35 years of performance experience himself, as well as five No. 1 hits on Canadian radio charts and numerous accolades.

In a distant land, a mist-like phenomenon devastates the common world with unknown malice. Begin a perilous journey, seek towering, divine creatures, retrieve those twisted and lost “essences ...