Earlier in 2017, IrishCentral featured the skills of incredible 11-year-old bodhrán player Seán Maguire who plays alongside his Dad and two sisters in The Maguires. The four-piece family band has now ...

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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 ...

One of America’s leading bodhrán players is to be featured in the popular CWTV show “Gossip Girl” which is filmed in New York. Anna Colliton, teaches advanced bodhrán, a traditional Irish drum at the ...

Daniel Lyons was on a mission to find a bodhran, which is a traditional Irish hand drum. He knew exactly what he wanted and after asking around, the two names that kept coming up were Seamus O'Kane ...

Robbie Harris is the bodhran player with Dublin music stars Jiggy, who will be headlining the World Stage during Mela Day this Sunday at Botanic Gardens, the finale of 19th Belfast Mela Festival.

Hailing from Brittany, the Celtic region of France, Jean-Michel Veillon was first a dancer and then a bombard (the Breton double-reed oboe) player in his teens before moving on to the transverse ...

Watch Wexford teenager performing with trad band Beoga on the opening night of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. A young Gorey man had the experience of a lifetime as he was chosen to join popular ...

Ispíní na hÉireann is a dynamic trad-rock collective from Dublin, formed in 2018 and fronted by singer-songwriter Tomás Mulligan. Drawing from deep roots in Irish traditional music, the group features ...

Tributes have been paid in Galway to revered Waterford-born bodhrán player Nick Power, who has been remembered as a ‘gentleman’ and ‘good friend’ by many who knew him out west.