You may have noticed that a lot of people across the world love playing or listening to traditional Irish instruments. They have very strong rhythms and warm tones, which make them popular. Musicians ...

Rob Gándara, plays for his son, Finisterre. Gándara is an engineer who designs and makes a modern version of Uilleann pipes. Irish bagpipes, or Uilleann pipes (rhymes with chillin'), are a traditional ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

ON a quiet stretch of road in Killasser in east Mayo, the sound of drilling, sanding, and fine-tuning carries from a small ...

A two-year uilleann pipe-making class in Dublin is helping to preserve one of Ireland's oldest traditional instruments. The uilleann pipe-making class is part of Ballyfermot College of Further ...

A Chinese musician put a new spin on Irish music by playing some of Ireland's favorite trad songs on traditional Chinese instruments. Jaylin Chu always had an interest in Irish music but found it very ...

On Friday, visitors to Third Nature Brewing near Rockford can attend a free live performance from Trillium, a traditional ...