The moment you step into the dance hall, the sound envelops you. A fiddle erupts; an electric guitar wails; a keyboard drives out steady chords. Under colorful paper decorations dangling from the ...

In 1994, Liz Doherty – a renowned fiddler from Buncrana, Co Donegal – was lecturing in the music department at UCC. She had a brainwave. She wanted her students to learn traditional music through ...

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The fiddle accompanied Lewis & Clark across the West. Fur trappers danced to it. Fiddle music followed the Métís as they sought a safe place south of the border, and they shared it with the Blackfeet.