The terms of the European element of the bail-out arouse particular ire. There is something approaching a consensus in Ireland that the country rescued Europe (specifically, German and French investors that had lent heavily to Irish banks) last November, rather than the other way around. There ...
my Irish Gaelic tutor greets me, "How are you?" My grandfather is from County Waterford, Ireland; my grandmother is from the Isle of Lewis, one of the Scottish Hebrides Islands. When we travel back, visits to our relatives are suffused with Gaelic – on the radio, in animated ...
(as in first or second fiddles) but fiddling, whether Scottish, Irish, Bluegrass, or Oldtime, is just the style on a regular violin. It has nothing to do with the bridge (which is only higher or lower or flatter depending on quality and preference) or fine tuners (which didn't exist...
Speaking ofCassel& Falquet, the duo has recently released “Over the Sea to Skye,” a new album of Scottish and Cape Breton music, that I’m sure will be a focus at BCMFest. The music is stylish and potent, and the sort that the fiddle lovers out there will want to check out. Cas...