Fairhope-based concert violinist and fiddler Tom Morley has released a new book, “Learn to Play Irish Trad Fiddle,” which combines his love of playing Irish traditional music with his decades of ...

Fiddlefast.com is his email. Music is in his soul. And also in his fiddle. Aidan Maher brought his music and the music of 82 of his students to the Helix Center in Dublin, Ireland during the February ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On a quiet Monday night in an empty pub in North Beach, the fiddle of Brian Theriault can be heard crying from a far corner. It is just one instrument in a traditional Irish session that includes ...

“I’ve had an enormous time with my fiddle since I came to America,” says Mick Gavin. The 71-year-old Irish immigrant has 12 fiddles, but the one in his hands — a 200-year-old instrument coated in ...

EDWARDSVILLE — Gwen and Eliana (Ellie) Harkey earned bronze medals last month at a music festival in Ireland. Gwen Harkey attends eighth grade at Lincoln Middle School; Ellie Harkey is in fourth grade ...

For this deputy chief of the Public Integrity Bureau within the Westchester District Attorney's Office in White Plains, N.Y., the dual sides of his life complement each other. "There's something about ...

When it comes to Irish traditional music and its evolution, it is always more intriguing to think in circular patterns than it is in linear ones when marking certain milestones in its history. It was ...

Irish traditional music, from “Danny Boy” to rowdy pub songs to dynamic dance numbers, is a social practice. Nora Revenaugh of Clinton, who plays the fiddle and sings in both Irish and English, ...

Eileen Ivers could have been a mathematician, but fortunately for the world of Celtic music she chose the path she was meant to pursue. And in mathematical terms, it’s all added up. A nine-time winner ...