You may think you know Irish, but have you ever listened to the new wave of Irish folk music? If your answer is no, Celtic Utopia (Útóipe Cheilteach) can help you out. The documentary from the ...

Alan Stivell is thinking back to the time he taught Shane MacGowan to sing in Breton, the Celtic language of France’s northwest Atlantic corner, which is at the heart of the harpist’s lifework ...

If your radio has ever been seeking a frequency in the past two decades and settled on 95FM, you might have stumbled across sounds you ...

Irish folk music has played a significant role in shaping the history of commercial country music in Nashville. Nashville has a long-standing Irish heritage, with a consistent Irish population and ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...

In the Mountain Strings, Celtic and American Ensembles, BYU students explore various types of music from around the world, from Ireland and Scotland to Russia and Macedonia. Mark Geslison has been ...

Lately U2 have been celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 2004 album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb with a reissue and an entire alternate LP. But the band is not totally fixated on the rearview.

U2 guitarist the Edge said the band is working with Brian Eno on music with an Irish folk element, which could appear on their next album. Following 2017’s Songs of Experience, U2 released Songs of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country music has long had a bit of Ireland in it. Irish folk music's role in rooting commercial mainstream country music to its ...