Tag: guitar
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 …
Ireland is a land of stories. Those stories are found in landscape, in history, in the change of seasons, in conversations around the kitchen table, by the fireside at …
The music of Ireland is at its heart about the telling of stories. High powered stage shows, hearty drinking songs, and sentimental ballads all have their place. They often …
(Part of the Austin Rocks series of posts by a local about things to do and see in Austin, Texas) It’s not hard to find good live music in a place …
Music has a way of connecting people, across countries, cultures, and generations. Music can help share joy and sorrow, may provoke discussion or dance, reflection and memory. In times …
Guitarists from three very different traditions of the Celtic world give a concert together at a festival in France and like their collaboration so well they make an album. …
Ireland: it is a land of myth and legend, story and history, and vibrant twenty first century country too, whose people have their own challenges and success in modern …
Perhaps one of your thoughts for the new year is to travel more, explore more. Maybe you have specific plans in mind, maybe you’re not there yet, or perhaps …
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 …
A world renown guitarist and singer from Brazil who reinvents popular songs with Afro Latin beats, a woman who frames songs of ranch life in the grit of Texas, …
Canada. From the west where crashing sea meets forested coast to the far north of the Yukon, from the heights of the Rockies through the plains, from Lake Ontario …
I’m enthralled. In a display case in front of me is the last guitar Elvis Presley ever played on stage. It’s a Martin D-28 and he used it at …
