The huge crowd the band attracted at Electric Picnic last weekend didn t know or care about any pro-IRA sentiment in their lyrics. Sure weren t they just catchy tunes to sing along to
Highlighting this month's happenings in Greater Boston and Eastern Massachusetts are two festivals: The Rockport Celtic Festival (September 14-17) and the Lowell Irish Festival (September 24). Newfoundland singer/guitarist Matthew Byrne will be among the performers at this month's Rockport Celtic Festival.•Meanwhile, the Burren Backroom series produced by Brian O’Donovan will
Music is an immutable part of the human experience. Song and rhythm have captured our joys and heartaches, celebrated our achievements, mourned our failings and expressed our connection with the divine. Music has also been used to stir our feelings, and to rouse us to action: the beating of a drum to signal the march to war, the sounding of a trumpet for a cavalry charge, the anthem of a country or the melodies that serve as the soundtracks to history.