The Irish seem born with a love of music. At social gatherings, everyone's always ready to sing his or her "party piece." Performances are judged less by skill than by uninhibited sincerity or ...

A Chinese musician put a new spin on Irish music by playing some of Ireland's favorite trad songs on traditional Chinese instruments. Jaylin Chu always had an interest in Irish music but found it very ...

WATERLOO - It can be somber and solemn, or witty and whimsical. Few other genres seem as well-suited to the array of human emotions as Celtic music, and the Irish duo Switchback is one of the bands ...

Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, 74, the last of the Clancy Brothers group, whose spirited songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Dec. 5 in a hospital in Cork, Ireland. He had ...

Hozier had a challenging childhood after an important surgery left his father in a wheelchair, which complicated his entire ...