I WAS IN bed for a week recovering from the Eleanor Shanley gig at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Cavan. There were more than 1,500 people in the Liberty Dome, a big white tent, with a stage in the ...

A treasured traditional instrument has pride of place once more in a family home after a remarkable TV restoration. The bodhrán had been made by a son from his father's garden sieve. Torn, decayed and ...

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There’s an old joke that goes, “What’s the best way to play a bodhrán? With a penknife.” The slag is reputed to have come from the piper Séamus Ennis – infuriated by beginners buying a bodhrán at a ...

SSSHHHH... don't breathe a word. Don't tell anyone but there is going to be a surprise party for Seamus O'Kane, the much-loved and highly-respected bodhrán player ...

AN INNOVATIVE new bodhrán tutor book designed to meet the needs of a bodhrán class in Co Armagh has sold out its first edition after attracting orders from 13 countries. Published last November, the ...

The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival gets underway this week, with plenty of fun and entertainment for those heading to the rebel ...

There are spaces still left for the popular bodhrán workshops being hosted online by John Joe Kelly and the Hawk's Well theatre. The intermediate workshop has sold out. They are being held for 6 weeks ...

Documentary On One: Professor Mel Mercier, Chair of Performing Arts at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at University of Limerick, introduces Peadar Mercier, a documentary portrait of his ...

ONE of Kerry's most successful festivals is on the verge of going burst due to a lack of funding and corporate sponsorship. The World Bodhrán Festival, which was held in Milltown for the last three ...

A French scientist living in Ireland has helped develop a groundbreaking method of measuring stress on human skin and organs by studying the bodhrán in an advance that could help surgeons treat ...

London-based producer/vocalist Bonzai (one of the best new artists of 2016) has impressed us with her ability to infuse R&B influences with wildly inventive electronic production and a raw punk-rock ...