So, here we are, in what is arguably the most active month on the Irish/Celtic music calendar – especially here in Greater Boston/Eastern Massachusetts. A sampling of what’s coming up follows.– SEAN SMITH We’ll start with the Burren’s Brian O’Donovan Legacy Series, which will present Dàimh on March 6. Based in the Isle of Skye and West Lochaber, the quintet – former winner of
Tommy Fleming has told how his decision to re-release Bells Are Ringing as a Christmas single was inspired by the “awful heartache” of the war in Gaza.
A look at some upcoming Irish/Celtic-related music events in Greater Boston (and perhaps a little farther afield):•You can read elsewhere in the BostonIrish entertainment section about local fiddler Hanneke Cassel’s May 12 appearance at the Second Fridays Concert series in Belmont and about Boston-area native Doug Lamey’s return to his old haunts.
Gifted Irish-American guitarist Dennis Cahill passed away June 20 at age 68 after a long illness. Tributes have poured in from his fans around the globe.
When the tribe of Chatti arrived in Scotland at the beginning of the Christian era and became the embryonic clan Keith, they assimilated with the people known to us by their Roman name, the Picts.