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One of America’s leading bodhrán players is to be featured in the popular CWTV show “Gossip Girl” which is filmed in New York. Anna Colliton, teaches advanced bodhrán, a traditional Irish drum at the ...

The Footloose star – he’s got a ton of other stuff to his credit too, but the ‘80s dance movie will always be at the top – told RTE host Ryan Tubridy back in 2020 that he loves the Irish hand drum, ...

Via The Journal Of Music: Cork University Press has recently published Beating Time: The Story of the Irish Bodhrán by Fintan Vallely, a major new study of the instrument with portraits of renowned ...

THE LATE LATE Show is to host its first ever Irish traditional music special tomorrow night, celebrating all things trad.

for the first-ever World Bodhrán Championships. The festival is being held to promote the role of the bodhrán in traditional Irish music and is expected to attract thousands of bodhrán players and ...

A French scientist living in Ireland has helped develop a groundbreaking method of measuring stress on human skin and organs by studying the bodhrán in an advance that could help surgeons treat ...

A HEAVILY tattooed pair of bodhran players are drumming up huge support in Malmo ahead of tomorrow's Eurovision finals. Colm Farrell and Alan McGrath are tasked with ensuring the Irish entry dances to ...

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When Prince Charles picked up the bodhrán “bait” left on an empty chair beside a line of musicians playing a reel at the Cahir food market, the press pack almost lost its collective mind. Moments ...

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