This year’s Christmas Revels—at the Boulder Theater on December 16 and December 22, at 2 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.—is set in Appalachia during the mid-1800s where English, Scotch, Irish, and Welsh settlers shared the characteristics of being fiercely independent and desiring the freedom to live as they pleased. Steep mountainsides kept outsiders out and insiders […]

Ireland is inviting you to The Gathering 2013 to celebrate Irish music, food, culture and more with hundreds of events throughout 2013. Are you thinking about going? We would love to hear from our readers about your plans to go to Ireland and what inspires you about the Emerald Island. Are you going to discover […]

By Bill Nevins and Lorenzo Duran Photo credits: www.higginsphotonyc.com Judy Collins, the Colorado-born “Suite Judy Blue Eyes” of Stephen Stills’s famous song, and the beloved song writer/performer whose many albums and concerts have filled our lives with sad and joyous song, was honored Monday evening, October 15 in a gala ceremony in Manhattan, New York […]

by Rodger Hara Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill are regarded by many in the traditional Irish music world as the best fiddle/guitar duo performing today. Martin’s bow control is such that during a high energy 30 minute set, not a single hair will be broken. There is an almost tangible psychic link in their playing […]

It was about camaraderie not competition! The Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee held it’s Annual Queen Colleen Coronation at the Celtic Tavern in Lodo on October 21, 2012. The Queen Colleen and her Court will reign in the 51st Annual Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade, March 16, 2013. Six young ladies, from six different […]

The Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs will welcome world-music power Celtic Thunder to its stage Sunday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m. Surpassing sales of one million units combined, the musical phenomenon that is Celtic Thunder have recently been hailed as BILLBOARD’s Top World Music Artist, along with Top World Music Imprint and Top World […]

(photo by Kevin Westenberg) The Script–Dublin, Ireland’s chart-topping hit-makers, step up to the podium with their Olympic sized new single, “Hall Of Fame,” featuring global superstar will.i.am, off of their forthcoming release, #3, out October 9th. Penned by the band (Danny O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power), inspirational new single brings the band back to […]

Clannad are unquestionably one of the most unique yet identifiable sounds in Celtic Music. The Ó’Braonáin (Brennan) and Ó’Dúgáin (Duggan) families have been making their timeless music infused with the landscape of Donegal for over 40 years. Cindy Reich recently caught up with Máire (Moya) Ó’Braonáin at home in Donegal just prior to the start […]

Gaelic Storm will bring their “whirlwind ruckus” (Village Voice) to Denver Friday October 5th for another raucous, crowd-pleasing performance at the Gothic Theatre www.GothicTheatre.com. There will be an added level of energy in the house as local hero Jessie Burns plays the fiddle for the last time in Colorado. Jessie will return to her adopted […]

Cindy Reich caught up with Máirtin last month on one of his brief stops home while he washed clothes and they had a live chat on ‘The Long Acre,’ Cindy’s radio show on KRFC CR—You have visited Colorado before with the Fuchsia Band, and will be in attendance this fall at the Spanish Peaks Celtic […]

by Rodger Hara Colorado’s newest Celtic Festival continues to honor one of its original goals of featuring only local bands. Now in its third year, the Celtic Harvest Festival Edgewater is offering a place on its stage to one of Colorado’s newest and fastest rising Celtic bands, Delilah’s Revenge. This four piece Boulder-based purveyor of […]