WITH fiddle bows resined, banjos tuned and bodhrans held aloft, the 46th Fleadh Ceoil na h-Eireann got under way last night. Armed with umbrellas, rain gear and wellingtons, tens of thousands of ...

Contrary to Seamus Ennis’ much-quoted admonition that the best way to play the bodhrán was with a penknife, this percussion instrument is a much-admired and prominent feature in many Irish traditional ...

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 ...

BAY CITY, MI — "Dennis Murphy Slide," a musician yelled. A group gathered to play Irish music around a large round table with instruments littered on it and the floor on Tuesday evening, March 5, at ...

Photo courtesy of Michael Meade/ Caladh Nua consists (from left) Brian Mooney on banjo, Paddy Tutty on fiddle, viola and bodhran, Lisa Butler on lead vocals and fiddle, Derek Morrissey on button ...

The bodhrán is one of Ireland's oldest traditional musical instruments. The bodhrán is the iconic Irish drum, one of a small select family of Celtic instruments that is stated to pre-date Christianity ...