Boldly tracing song origins and bit characters

The inseparable Down the Broom and Gatehouse Maid

Morning lark energy vs. prat falls

The curious cases of the pied piper and piccolo player George White 


How supernatural songs and stories STILL stoke the soul

Why bees serve no king

How tyrants and sages bloom from the same soil

Monarchs and tango-tinged tunes

A Blue Dress and Blue Walls

Political animals and dramatic blossoms

Navigating setbacks and distraction

How family treasures trump trends

Carving Irish musical instruments and creative lives

Carving Irish musical instruments and creative lives

Balancing order and spontaneity in and out of Irish Music

How Brian O’Donovan set Boston’s stage for connection and community

How listeners lift and sustain Irish music

How people, plants, and pests pull together

Preserving tunes and trees

Conserving ancient woods and ballads

Irish Session Etiquette in Society, Business, Politics, and Home

How trad players process inventions and innovations

Commemorating the ordinary with jigs and reels

Cuppa Tea chat with Passim’s Matt Smith about Boston’s Celtic Music Festival

St. Stephen’s Day Traditions in Ireland

Tunes and treasures that spark from great loss

Railway grooves that shape traditional tunes

Pages of Irish history found in Lubbock and Leipzig

Nourishing Next-Gen musicians and dancers

Considering bonny, hale and hearty Irish tunes

An investigation of Francis O’Neill’s fascinating hobby

Two old jigs, and a few stories behind them

Revisiting conversations with Séamus Connolly & Louis de Paor

Tunes, tales, and weighted blankets

Marathons, quarantines, and kind school nurses

The long game of traditional music

The poetry of legacy

Annotated guide to “So This Is Irish Music”

How language, landscape, and industry have shaped music in Wales

How varieties of caretakers have nurtured heirloom Celtic music

Packing the traditional music bag (and website)

How context influences the art inside

The power of mundane, manageable, administrative tasks

Chat, quips, and craic in Irish music

Where tunes come from and what they carry

How Gaelic languages carry tradition

Teaching and learning social music outside of the pub

Traditional musicians on sustainability.

How banjo got to Irish music, while other instruments have been slower to the fold

How jigs and reels have inspired people outside of Ireland

How old Scottish tunes bloomed into Cape Breton traditions

How traditional musicians and dancers stay social in isolation

Fiddler Eileen Ivers talks soccer balls, wedding dresses, and jigs

Accordion player Jimmy Keane talks missing socks and enduring tunes

Pianist Helen Kisiel talks jazz cows and Irish encounters

Box player Billy McComiskey shares a wee tale and a tune

How drinks and snacks feed traditional music

How supernatural songs and stories stoke the soul

How trad musicians do (and do not) practice

Antrim singer Len Graham on old songs and friends who sang them

How Scottish and Irish music intersect

Keeping Irish time in the land of the rising sun

How visual artists portray Irish music and dance

Supernatural and nutritional music topics from Scotland

Musicians who play more than one style of traditional music

What happens when you put trad music and dance on display

More Irish Music Stories for 2019

Live-streaming with an accordion and a phone booth

The music behind the stories

How two Irish musicians modulated their careers through parenthood

Reharmonizing Irish music and dance, one room at a time

Why players plunge into immersive teaching weeks

Cuppa Tea chat with Liz Carroll about relationships and time

How home recordings shape Irish music

Old ballads in a dating app era

Cuppa tea with the Baltimore McComiskeys

Tapping in to forces that shape our rhythm

Love, livelihood, and left hooks in an Irish key

An exploration of the word ‘Celtic’

More Irish music stories for 2018

Reflections on Season One and partial Episode 1 rebroadcast

Derry-born Dáithí Sproule on beauty, respect, and mindfulness

The serious side of Irish humor

How Irish dance connects with traditional music today

How the uilleann pipes have called generations of players

How Irish players accompany traditional music

How Irish music gets passed on from one (biker) to another

How two Irish pubs were built on music, faith, and four forks

What Irish music sessions mean to players and punters

Chat and songs with Waterford singer Karan Casey

How a Boston band earned a trip to the west of Ireland.