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The Footloose star – he’s got a ton of other stuff to his credit too, but the ‘80s dance movie will always be at the top – told RTE host Ryan Tubridy back in 2020 that he loves the Irish hand drum, ...

Via The Journal Of Music: Cork University Press has recently published Beating Time: The Story of the Irish Bodhrán by Fintan Vallely, a major new study of the instrument with portraits of renowned ...

A new book explores how the bodhrán became a popular musical instrument in surprisingly recent times John B Keane playing a bodhrán alongside its maker Sonny Canavan in a Newsround segment aired in ...

The Irish seem born with a love of music. At social gatherings, everyone's always ready to sing his or her "party piece." Performances are judged less by skill than by uninhibited sincerity or ...

Each January, Dublin comes alive with the sound of fiddles, flutes, and bodhráns as TradFest, Ireland’s largest traditional ...

BAY CITY, MI — "Dennis Murphy Slide," a musician yelled. A group gathered to play Irish music around a large round table with instruments littered on it and the floor on Tuesday evening, March 5, at ...