Tag: Celtic music
Orkney: this group of islands off Scotland’s north coast has been drawing people to visit and to live for 10,000 years. That’s right: ten thousand years. There’s much evidence …
The streets and businesses around Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Glasgow’s city centre and West End in Scotlans will be rather quieter than usual this January. Gathering …
Music is an essential part of winter. Sometimes, though, those familiar winter music songs and carols can get a bit overdone or seem a bit , well, too familiar. …
A festival steeped in and celebrating the culture, landscape, and music of a beautiful albeit rather remote place: this is Celtic Colours. –>Update, late May 2021: Word has just …
Fiddle, flute, guitar: each has a part in the sound of Ireland. Each can help you know Ireland, even when you are at a distance. Ballads, jigs, reels, slow …
Community: it’s an ever changing, ever engaging aspect of travel. We come from community, travel through communities, engage and explore differences and things that connect. We connect with each …
Crossing borders goes along with traveling. In many ways crossing borders goes along with playing music, too. In both cases, there’s an art to keeping centered while taking on …
City Halls and the Old Fruitmarket: two wildly different music venues which stand next to each other in Glasgow’s Merchant City neighborhood. They share an entrance, in fact, as …
Traveling in winter: it has its challenges, whatever weather you might be going through or toward in your travels. Whatever that may be and whatever the reasons for your …
Music and travel: they go together, even if you’re not musically inclined in other areas of your life. Instruments, songs, stories, languages, tone, rhythm, melody all evoke sense of …
Shannon Heaton and Laura Cortese were walking through Davis Square, In Somerville, Massachusetts. They passed by The Burren, a pub known for great Irish music sessions and performances. That …
“I often describe my style of presenting as gathering people in my house, with the broadcast signal extending the walls of my living room,” says Brian O’Donovan, host of …
