That’s what you call Celtic musicians, right? So get ready to dance, strum, and sing at Passim’s 21st annual Boston Celtic Music Fest, Jan. 11-14. And this isn’t your Nana’s music festival: A Celtic ...

Every February, more than 4,000 music lovers attend the indoor Greater Philadelphia Mid-Winter Scottish & Irish Music Festival and Fair. Again this year, fans of Irish and Scottish music and culture ...

Ric Blair’s Irish and Scottish ancestry are part of the narrative in the story of the Celts, the Nashville-based Celtic music ensemble that he leads. What’s not mentioned in the Celts’ band bio is ...

High-stepping Irish dancing, the music of such evocative instruments as bodhran and fiddle, and songs from near and far are all part of “Christmas with the Celts.” The show that aired on 222 PBS ...

A few minutes into the second half of Christmas with the Celts, percussionist Jeff Durham asked his Hazleton audience: “Just out of curiosity, how many people here tonight can trace their family roots ...

When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11. Where: Lincoln Center Performance Hall, 417 W. Magnolia, Fort Collins. Tickets: $32, available at 221-6730 or at lctix.com. Imagine your favorite holiday songs played ...

The sound of children’s voices raised in song is perhaps one of the most viscerally uplifting in the world. Celtic music is full of such songs, passed down from generation to generation. Many of the ...

The adjective Celtic has been used to sell so many things—from books and music to jewelry to alternative spiritualities—that a canny reader might be forgiven for passing over a book called The Last of ...

Lullaby. Even the sound of the word itself conjures calm and the softness of a mother's touch. The relationship between child and parent is so elemental; they say a baby can hear the sound of its ...

St. Patrick’s Day may be one of fun and frivolity for legions of people celebrating their inner Irish, but for a band like The Celts, it’s all business. The Nashville-based group will head east on ...

From around 700 BCE, Celtic tribes began migrating to Iberia, encountering the Romans who ruled the peninsula for over four centuries until the late 300s CE. The region then saw the rise of various ...