I WAS IN bed for a week recovering from the Eleanor Shanley gig at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Cavan. There were more than 1,500 people in the Liberty Dome, a big white tent, with a stage in the ...

A treasured traditional instrument has pride of place once more in a family home after a remarkable TV restoration. The bodhrán had been made by a son from his father's garden sieve. Torn, decayed and ...

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There are spaces still left for the popular bodhrán workshops being hosted online by John Joe Kelly and the Hawk's Well theatre. The intermediate workshop has sold out. They are being held for 6 weeks ...

The restoration of Derry musician Seamus McGuinness’s handmade bodhrán has featured in a bittersweet episode of BBC1 series The Repair Shop. Seamus, who died from cancer in March 2016, made the ...

The beat of the bodhrán will echo through the streets of Milltown this June Bank Holiday as the 4th annual World Bodhrán Championships gets underway. This unique festival, which promotes and showcases ...

AN INNOVATIVE new bodhrán tutor book designed to meet the needs of a bodhrán class in Co Armagh has sold out its first edition after attracting orders from 13 countries. Published last November, the ...

One of America’s leading bodhrán players is to be featured in the popular CWTV show “Gossip Girl” which is filmed in New York. Anna Colliton, teaches advanced bodhrán, a traditional Irish drum at the ...

The Bodhrán Bookills, a unique percussion band from St Joseph’s Boys national school on Cork’s Mardyke, who only play the bodhrán, will drum up support for the Queen of England’s historic visit to ...

When Prince Charles picked up the bodhrán “bait” left on an empty chair beside a line of musicians playing a reel at the Cahir food market, the press pack almost lost its collective mind. Moments ...