Colum selects the best traditional and contemporary folk music and song with studio guests, concert performances, new releases and vintage vinyl. Watch Alt-Folk group The Mulligan Brothers perform ...

Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day. A court tomb older than Egypt’s pyramids has secured a permanent new home on display at the Ulster Folk Museum. The 6,000-year-old ...

Anna Curran time travels through five decades of turbulent history. What to do in the garden when the temperature drops, Adam Frost’s Shrub of the Month and dealing with invasive Bamboo ...

Meet the Artist w/ Morrison Gong at CPW in Kingston, 6pm. Karaoke & Wing Nite at Outpost BBQ in Kerhonkson, 6pm. Free ...

Ulster Scots poet John Clifford dedicated his time to preserving the heritage and the old way of life in and around his beloved Larne. The man who restored the traditional “Hirin’ Fair” to ...

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While much of winter still lies ahead of us, signs of spring are near. Among the earliest harbingers of spring are the show ...

Elliott Smith appeared to be the second coming of Bob Dylan, infusing his folk-inspired 90s songs with tales of heartbreak and depression. Jimmy Eat World helped usher in emo music’s ascension ...

Tributes have been paid to a ‘legend’ of Derry’s Irish folk music scene following news of his passing on New Year’s Day. Eamon McLaughlin was known to many as a member of the folk band ...

Peter Yarrow, a major figure of the Sixties folk revival with Peter, Paul and Mary who was convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl and later received a presidential pardon, died today, The New ...

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