But don’t sleep on the other major festival coming up next week: Lafayette’s Festival International de Louisiane. This year’s ...

Sinners uses African-American blues and Irish folk music to illuminate the respective painful colonial pasts that the humans ...

RTE Late Late Show viewers were left gushing over a “class” performance by an Irish folk band. Patrick Kielty returned to ...

Aer Lingus representatives, Music City Irish Fest's CEO Brenda Willis, Irish musician Niall McCabe highlight long ties between Nashville and Ireland.

Country music has long had a bit of Ireland in it. Irish folk music's role in rooting commercial mainstream country music to its past, including those of the settlers of Belfast, Northern Ireland ...

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 ...

The song is about leaving home, friends and everything that you know to find a better life and discover who you are in the ...

Ed Sheeran has unveiled his new single Azizam - a Persian term of endearment meaning 'my dear' or 'my beloved' - and mixes ...

Irish musicologist Jason O’Rourke is in Zimbabwe on a two-week collaboration residency for music composition and performance ...

As nu-folk figureheads, Mumford & Sons helped set ... fact that most of its artists sounded like Waitrose versions of The Band. Mumford & Sons struggled more than most when the backlash arrived.

Trasna, an Irish folk duo comprised of Ger O’Donnell ... Their innovative approach to traditional folk music has resulted in six chart-topping hits in Ireland, solidifying their place in the ...