United Nations decision to recognize Irish harp music as a unique art form will help to protect and spread the Irish skill. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in ...

DULUTH - David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop in ...

Kathy DeAngelo keeps the tradition of Irish music alive through the fiddle and harp. Kathy DeAngelo keeps the tradition of Irish music alive through the fiddle and harp. Each week, she and her husband ...

HARPISTS and scholars will come together in Belfast next month to celebrate the instrument which has long been synonymous with Ireland. This year is the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the ...

Tom Powers has no intention of waiting until March to begin celebrating Irish-American month. The owner of the Celtic Harp will be beginning his 10th year of the series known is “Irish Music Sundays” ...

Alan Stivell is thinking back to the time he taught Shane MacGowan to sing in Breton, the Celtic language of France’s northwest Atlantic corner, which is at the heart of the harpist’s lifework ...