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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 ...

PROBABLY never in the annals of musical history has a Ukrainian saxophonist-cum-accordionist and an Irish bodhrán player come ...

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 ...

The Irish Cultural Centre Academy’s Fall Semester of classes is in session! The Fall 2013 Semester features classes in Beginner, Advanced Beginner, and Intermediate Irish Language with instructors ...

"What is the purpose of your trip, and why so many cameras?" It was a familiar question during my trip to Iran in January to film my first documentary, Hidden Drummers of Iran. This time, we are ...

TWO of the country's most iconic musical instruments are being celebrated in a European-wide stamp series. The Irish harp and bodhran will feature on two new stamps created by An Post in recognition ...

A HEAVILY tattooed pair of bodhran players are drumming up huge support in Malmo ahead of tomorrow's Eurovision finals. Colm Farrell and Alan McGrath are tasked with ensuring the Irish entry dances to ...

Looking back on it, I know now that I was an obnoxious teenager: a cuckoo in the next. It wasn’t my parents’ fault. They did their best. They had a strong work ethic, a belief in the central ...

On First Friday, March 4, OASIS will host a reception for the exhibit titled “A Few of My Favorite Things.” This exhibit has been created by Natalie Darling, an OASIS member who works with silver and ...