The fiddle player is on top form here, backed up by a fine array of musical talent

Affiliation of creative artists in Ireland elects six new people to vacant positions

From Dolores O’Riordan and Myrtle Allen to Stephen Hawking and Aretha Franklin

Year in Culture Review: Great albums, the rise of women and the loss of visionaries

Award-winning Donegal-born fiddle player, composer and Bothy Band member dies at 70

Sam Amidon on a folk inspiration that changed his musicianship

Dave Flynn has found an innovative way to blend his two musical loves

Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie Kennedy has been drawing students from around the world for two decades. Now the winter school’s driving forces, who include Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, are handing on the baton

Vermont native Sam Amidon explains how he went from office typist to folk revivalist - and how he loves to jam with Martin Hayes on the Lower East Side