United Nations decision to recognize Irish harp music as a unique art form will help to protect and spread the Irish skill. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ...

The Irish seem born with a love of music. At social gatherings, everyone's always ready to sing his or her "party piece." Performances are judged less by skill than by uninhibited sincerity or ...

DULUTH - David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop in ...

The Achill International Harp Festival will bring the best Irish harpers and harp music online this year. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the annual festival from Achill Island, Co. Mayo, will be ...

LUNENBURG – The Celtic harp, brought to life by harper, singer and dancer Regina Delaney, will fill the air with traditional Irish and Scottish music at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at the Lunenburg ...

Tom Powers has no intention of waiting until March to begin celebrating Irish-American month. The owner of the Celtic Harp will be beginning his 10th year of the series known is “Irish Music Sundays” ...

(Paul Faith/AFP/AFP) "It's never too late to start a new hobby," says 89-year-old Irish harp-maker Noel Anderson, one of only a few making the intricate instrument, a national symbol of Ireland. A ...