Considered by some as British folk music's finest ambassadors, Brian Peters, who will appear at the uNi Coffeehouse in Springfield on Saturday, is a performer of traditional folk music who combines a ...

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SUNDERLAND—The concertinas on the shelves in the show room at The Button Box in Sunderland are more than musical instruments, they are works of art. Though they can be made in a variety of ...

Incidentally, he took second place on the accordion, too. A concertina, by the way, is a small instrument that resembles an accordion but has buttons instead of keys. The rest of the house band ...

IT was the instrument proudly played by people across Australia - but the full legacy of the humble concertina is all but forgotten. "It's really the guitar of the 19th century and the period up to ...

It is a golden age for folk music in West Kerry with five of the seven nominees for the Best Traditional Folk Track at this year’s RTE Radio One Folk Awards coming from West Kerry or strongly linked ...

ON A street of soot-stained sandstone, tucked behind Scotland’s National Museum, a door is thrown open and then pulled shut against the cold. A snatch of sound—chatter, strings and the strum of a ...

I was thinking the other day about 'appropriate' folk instruments and decided that really there weren't any - or that, with the exception of the Bontempi organ there probably wasn't a non-folk ...

The 46th Cork Folk Festival is set to take place from October 1 to 5, 2025, showcasing a vibrant array of traditional and folk music through 35 events featuring 200 musicians across 15 venues. This ...

Norman Chalmers, musician, photographer, teacher and writer. Born: 5 June, 1948, in South Lanarkshire. Died: 23 March, 2024, in Edinburgh, aged 75 Norman Chalmers ...