Posts Tagged ‘ Celtic Music ’

MAGGIE SANSONE: HAMMERED DULCIMER AND SHARON KNOWLES: CELTIC HARP MUSIC WITH ENERGY AND SPIRIT GREAT MUSIC FOR A GREAT CAUSE DATE: SATURDAY MAY 8, 2010 TIME: 7PM PRICE: $12 LOCATION: DUBOIS AREA MIDDLE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, 404 LIBERTY BLVD, DUBOIS, PA. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DUBOIS MALL ENTRANCE 4/24 10AM-2PM TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR...

Celtic Music really is universally loved. We expect to hear great Celtic Music from Ireland and Scotland. We also expect to find it in the places the Celtic peoples emigrated to in droves – the US, Canada and Australia. But there are other places where Celtic Music is popular. We will spotlight some great...

“Hope to see some of ye in the very near future folks. Slan..” The Druids are a four-piece Irish REBEL band made up of three Kildare men and a Wexford man… Paddy Mangan from Johnstown Bridge on banjo, mandolin and vocals; Gary Lawlor from Clane on acoustic guitar and lead vocals; newest recruit Darren Egan...

Last month The Tossers were profiled here along with four other Chicago area Celtic bands not to be missed. These guys are a huge favorite of Chicagoans, consistently selling out and pleasing the fans with their traditional folk and Celtic punk rock fury presentations. During the month of March, they’ll be performing around the Midwest...

My great grandparents, like hundreds of thousands of other Irish immigrants, stepped off the boat from Ireland into New York City. They, like so many others, made NYC home. Celtic music is deeply woven into the fabric of the city and spreads its influence throughout the Empire State. Here is a small sample of...

By SlainteSteve Depending on where you live, there may or may not be much going on in the way of Celtic music or other related activities. Some places are hotter than others. Here in our area (the Pacific Northwest), things got a whole lot better for the local Celtic scene around February of ’09,...

Since we have added google analytics to fanrealm we can see where our visitors are coming from. This will help us decide which areas are of interest to our readers. We will use this to highlight regional bands and events. The first region we will highlight is Virginia in the US because we get...

Andrew Huggan is a folk singer/songwriter from Central Scotland. He has been playing music ever since he was a small child but it’s only within the last decade that he started to take it more seriously. In 2003, Andrew went to his first ever Runrig gig. He was so amazed by the gig that...

Another direction that Celtic music has gone is into the rock field. Celtic Rock is known by various names. One Celtic rock band calls their music kilt rock, other uses sham-rock. Whatever they call it, Celtic rock is an exciting form of Celtic music. Some bands do more traditional songs just in a rock...

We are starting to have a good number of visitors from the UK so I thought I would post the tour schedule for a Celtic Rock band called Coast. A great Scottish singer called Andrew Huggan will be supporting them on some of the Scottish leg of the tour. More about both Coast and...

Gaelic Storm is touring again after taking a few months off to recharge and work on a new cd. More info on that as it becomes available. Click on the venue name for tickets and other info. JANUARY * 13 Ft. Lauderdale, FL The Culture Room * 14 Orlando, FL The Plaza Theatre *...

I’ve gathered up info on some of our favorite Celtic Music bands. Most of them are very well known but just in case you missed them I will post a bit on each one and links where you can find out more. These are certainly not all of our favorites. This is just a...

Peat & Barley are Bill Mitchell, on the hammered dulcimer, and Becky Ross on the fiddle. Bill has been playing the hammered dulcimer since 1992, and Becky, classically trained on violin, took up playing Celtic fiddle music in 1991. Bill and Becky have been playing together, as Peat & Barely since 1996. I usually...

I am always on the lookout for new (to me anyway) Celtic Music. MySpace is a great resource to me for new bands. Most of these are active on the festival circuit and many have cds at cdbaby so I will list my latest finds here. Check them out and buy their cds or...

Merry Christmas, anxious readers! What follows is a conversation I recently had with singer & songwriter, Mickey Coleman.  I’ve been listening to Mickey’s music and closely following his career for about a year now. Found him quite by accident while researching Northern Ireland for a once in a lifetime trip last summer. As travel time drew...