Celtic News

Oak Harbor residents Jim and Inge Johnston are spending Valentine's Day using a warm-hearted hug to spread comfort and warm feelings throughout Whidbey Island.

Nationally renowned blues performers Davina and the Vagabonds return to Windhover Center Saturday Feb 11.

What: The Chieftains 50th Anniversary Tour 2012: Voice of Ages. The venerable Paddy Maloney, who formed the Grammy-winning band in 1962, is bringing his uilleann pipes, tin whistle, button accordion and bodhrán – along with the rest of the Irish band – to Davis.

High and Dry . Words and music by Thom Yorke, Jonathan Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Edward O'Brien, and Philip Selway.

For example, the guitar is a natural choice on which to interpret music written for the Irish harp.

Gaelic Storm is out as headlining act for Saturday night at the Saline Celtic Festival.

We began with perfectly chilled Smithwick's beers -- served up in Guinness glasses -- and with a friendly, good-natured greeting on our first visit to the two-month-old Bat Shea's, a Celtic pub at 95 Ferry Street that is one of several new such ethnic pubs in the city.

The Chieftains celebrate their 50th Anniversary Tour with Philadelphia performance at the Kimmel Center on March 9, 2012 at 8 p.m. in Verizon Hall.

With their unique blend of virtuosi instrumental talents and beautiful vocals, Cherish the Ladies returns with their Celtic Christmas concert.

Solas' mix of traditional and contemporary styles has been featured on "A Prairie Home Companion," as well as at Wolf Trap, the Smithsonian Institution's National Folk Festival, and Queens Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A half-century ago -- the same year the Stones got rolling in England, the same year the Beatles released their first single, the same year the Beach Boys put out their first album across the Atlantic in sunny Southern California -- a group of Irish musicians came up with the revolutionary idea of playing their native country's folk music much the ... (more)

Clannad singer Moya Brennan who was among 200 people who gathered at a Co Donegal hotel last night to take part in a live online concert.

Solas, a popular and influential Celtic band, is bringing its Irish folk music to Lakeland College's Krueger Fine Arts Series.

Providence Resources, the Irish oil explorer, has found signs of the black stuff during appraisal drilling in the North Celtic Sea Basin offshore southern Ireland.

Smithfield and Ponaganset high school wrestlers had prosperous evenings on the Moses Brown mats as they registered wrestling triumphs over the hosts.

T he Estes Park Music Festival Winter Series at the Stanley Hotel is pleased to once again welcome acclaimed Celtic fingerstyle guitarist Jerry Barlow who will present a special Valentine program.

February is Hot Breakfast month which opens it up many possibilities for the Irish Wilmingtonian.

Tune in online at 6pm GMT tonight for the live webcast of legendary singer Moya Brennan launching The Donegal Gathering in Letterkenny.

The Get Backs, a funk/soul band from Boston, Mass. will be headlining the 3rd Annual Winter Blues Festival at The Blue Ocean Music Hall on Saturday, Feb.

Host Plainwell outscored Dowagiac 14-3 in the first quarter and never looked back in defeating the Chieftains 49-31 Tuesday night in Wolverine Conference girls basketball.