Tag: Celtic music
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 …
Temple Bar, in the heart of Dublin City. You might think of it for its lively scene of pubs and drink. You could know it for its art galleries …
Harvard Square in January: cold, sure. Snow, very likely. Winter winds: also likely. What will warm you right up, though, is the music going on. It’s time for the …
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 …
Cape Breton is a small island, far in the north of Atlantic Canada. Though it is rather out of the way — perhaps because it it is — it …
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 …
The depths of winter, you might think at first, is not when you’d go looking for music festivals in the colder parts of the world. The winter weather outside …
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 …
In winter, Scotland’s weather especially invites people to gather indoors and listen. Celtic Connections in Glasgow, despite being one of Europe’s largest winter festivals, maintains an atmosphere of friends …
Up on the north eastern coast of Canada, facing Scotland across Atlantic waters, is Cape Breton Island. Land and sea, forest and mountains, coal mining and working the waters, …
