Jacob Brillhart, a violin-maker from Chelsea, Vermont, is raffling off a $10,000 violin to benefit musicians who lost work in the coronavirus pandemic.
The Rockport Celtic Festival at the Shalin-Liu Performance Center (Sept. 14-17) is geared toward exploring the similarities as well as the differences between music traditions, Irish and otherwise, that have become associated with The festival, now in its fourth year, has joined the impressive suite of annual events bearing the imprint of WGBH broadcaster Brian O’Donovan,