Tag: celtic music
member name: Kerry Dexter
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December 23, 2008 02:53 PM EST --
check out a favorite photo essay from last December, a thought about Advent, and great holiday music suggestions, sit in on a pair of Christmas concerts and hear what it’s like to make holiday . . .
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November 28, 2008 03:29 PM EST --
Learning music is fun any time of year, so ways to do that make especially good gifts, for yourself and others. Here are several ideas:
Ellery Klein’s Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the . . .
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January 02, 2008 07:49 AM EST --
The Boston Celtic Music Festival is coming up on the 11th and 12th of January, with day and evening music at Club Passim and First Church around Harvard Square and a Friday night ceilidh . . .
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January 29, 2009 05:31 AM EST --
A singer and percussionist from Senegal shares the stage with the first Scottish traditional group to add African elements to Scottish trad, a singer from Norway joins forces with a fiddler from Inverness . . .
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June 04, 2008 07:54 PM EDT --
In an earlier conversation, award winning banjo player and composer Alison Brown spoke about her career as a musician. There's another side to her musical coin, though: more than dozen years ago, . . .
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June 20, 2008 08:25 AM EDT --
A cookbook, a novel that considers, among other things, the weight of choices in our daily lives, a book about Texas and one about Irish musicians: these are four of the books I'm reading this week. . . .
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January 23, 2008 01:32 PM EST --
The category notation on the back of Alison Brown's recording Stolen Moments reads 'bluegrass (more or less).' The music is, actually, that: it ranges from Andrea Zonn singing Brown's . . .
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March 03, 2008 06:26 PM EST --
Singer and songwriter Cathie Ryan builds bridges between Ireland and America, between past and present, and between the stuff of daily life and the spiritual and emotional dimensions that give . . .
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October 25, 2007 08:55 AM EDT --
Musicians Gillian Frame, Findlay Napier, Hamish Napier, and Ali Hutton have each worked on other projects, but when they joined together as the band Back of the Moon they found musical connections . . .
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November 08, 2007 08:29 AM EST --
Sharing songs, stories, and tunes through the evening is a common thing in Ireland and Irish America. Irish band Teada along . . .
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February 13, 2008 05:01 PM EST --
It started with the sound of bagpipes from the Scottish Power Pipe Band and in the light of torches carried by musicians, politicians, and music fans, and ended with a collaboration among players . . .
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March 08, 2008 04:16 PM EST --
A few suggestions for Irish music beyond the pub songs and sentimental favorites often heard this time of year, a dvd of a very fine concert held at Vicar Street in Dublin, and a look back at the work . . .
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March 13, 2008 10:44 AM EDT --
A singer from the western shore of Kerry, a band with members from Galway and New Zealand, Irish language songs from a range of artists including Van Morrison and Sinead O'Connor, music from . . .
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April 23, 2008 06:18 PM EDT --
"I always want to choose strong material," Mary Black says, "something I feel I can work with and interpret and express something, and add something to the song." The range of . . .
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July 23, 2008 10:05 AM EDT --
Heidi Talbot is the singer, Kris Dever on guitar, John McCusker on concertina and fiddle.
The song is called Bedlam Boys and Talbot has recorded it . . .
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July 08, 2008 07:53 AM EDT --
"I'm going to have to put in some beans. We might get a beanstalk and climb up to Nirvana!" Adrienne Young says with laughter. Though it's not the easiest thing for a touring . . .
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