Category: Kerry projects

Pytheas was a Greek who lived almost four hundred years before the Christian era. Perhaps it was in part his interest the mathematics of navigation which led him to …

A well worn fiddle from deep in the Appalachian mountains, a handmade banjo from more than a century ago, a black Gibson guitar with a red rose inlay, a …

For Maria Dunn, writing a song begins by “having my antenna up. There’s a moment, a way a story or a phrase touches me I get a chill down …

Eating well these days means choosing foods that are good for you, and good for the planet. That is true when you choose foods you prepare yourself, and when …

Celebrations of faith, the turn of seasons, graduations, weddings… late spring is a time of reflection for many reasons. Here are three albums which are good companions along such …

In Spanish, the words el doble de amigos translate as twice a many friends. Knowing even a few words in someone else’s language — and using them – often …

Spring in the foot hills of the Great Smokey mountains of North Carolina is a beautiful time of year, and quite varied in weather too: one morning clear Carolina …

A while back, I reflected on songwriters as travel writers. Poets whose work appears on the printed page and elsewhere as you read and listen have places in travel …

The Mitchell: it’s been a good few years now since I wrote this story about my early visits to the main library in Glasgow. It remains one of my …

Dean Magraw is a Minnesota based guitarist whose diverse interests and well honed skills have led him to play with Americana heartland songwriter Greg Brown, fiery fiddle based Irish …

Across the world this week, writers are letting you in on their favorite things about New Zealand, as the people of that country work to recover from the earthquake …

County Donegal is up in the far northwest of Ireland. Water is a force in the lives of the people here. There are rocky cliffs to the west, and …