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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The restoration of Derry musician Seamus McGuinness’s handmade bodhrán has featured in a bittersweet episode of BBC1 series The Repair Shop. Seamus, who died from cancer in March 2016, made the ...

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A young Irish musician with cerebral palsy has learned to play the bodhran with the help of computer software that translates his eye movements into music. Cillian McSweeney, from Cork, has been ...

A bodhrán player with an Irish dancing troupe has been electrocuted in an accident in Siberia. Michael Kerrane (26), from Rathcairn, Co Meath, died while being photographed beside the Trans-Siberian ...

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