Beating Time – The Story of the Irish Bodhrán is Fintan Vallely’s latest book and in it he conducts a hugely comprehensive investigation into the background of the bodhrán in Ireland – a ‘cold-case’ ...

There’s an old joke that goes, “What’s the best way to play a bodhrán? With a penknife.” The slag is reputed to have come from the piper Séamus Ennis – infuriated by beginners buying a bodhrán at a ...

The Belmont Public Library is hosting an afternoon of Irish music to get in the spirit for Saint Patrick’s Day at the Music on Saturday program, featuring “Ceoil san Trathnonal. Bodhran master Eoin ...

London-based producer/vocalist Bonzai (one of the best new artists of 2016) has impressed us with her ability to infuse R&B influences with wildly inventive electronic production and a raw punk-rock ...

SSSHHHH... don't breathe a word. Don't tell anyone but there is going to be a surprise party for Seamus O'Kane, the much-loved and highly-respected bodhrán player ...

A French tourist on holiday in west Cork has spoken of her disappointment at not being made feel welcome when she brought her bodhrán to a traditional music session in a pub in the Skibbereen area so ...

Of all the instruments in traditional music, the bodhran has arguably enjoyed the most spectacular renaissance. When Paddy Moloney was forming the Chieftains in the early 1960s, he recalls that ...

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 ...