The Guild Review

In Irish music, many of the instruments used are diatonic. In other words, they are not chromatic; it's hard to play in more than two ma...

St. Patrick's Day is not far off. Many people will celebrate with green beer and garish plastic hats. But there are better ways to c...

On St. Patrick's Day this year we mourn the death, and pray for the soul, of Liam O'Flynn, a great piper who died on March 14. O...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! This year, to supply you with Irish music on the one day of the year when it is on demand, I will show you a ...

This year in honor of St. Patrick's Day, a few polkas. Most people would be surprised to learn that the Irish dance polkas, but it...

Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) was the last of the great Irish bards. In ancient and medieval Ireland, the bards were poets and musici...

It's time once more for a little music in honor of St. Patrick's Day, just as in 2009 and 2010 . This year's post is dedicated ...

Aaron's post yesterday about the fabled Northwest Passage , and Stan Rogers' song about it, brought to my mind a common folk song ab...

Happy St. Patrick's day to all of you! As I did last year , I'd like to show a few videos about Irish music. The first video comes f...

Continued from yesterday ... One of the few factors in national life working in favor of traditional music in the late 19th century was the ...

In his recent post on Caritas in Veritate , Aaron noted Pope Benedict’s call for the integral development of culture as a protection agains...

I wanted to give a special shout out to a pair of new contributors who will be joining our blogging team. As the About This Blog section say...

I suppose tomorrow is the one day everyone is Irish, so I'll share a couple of my favorite youtube videos of Irish music. Also, a few of...