The origins of country music trace back to the pioneers from the British Isles who settled in the eastern American Appalachian mountain range.The genre, first known as Hillbilly music, emerged as a fusion of the ballads and folk songs of the English, fiddle and dance music of the Scots-Irish...
(grandson of Jane’s brother William) states that his mother was informed by Jane herself that her brother William had been the first to hear the tune, and had told her where to find ‘the mountain cabin where he heard it played on a fiddle as he passed’. After ‘a long drive from...
How Irish Step Dancing Helped Create Tap Dance Tap Dancing originated in the U.S. - it has been called the first American art form. Irish immigrants and their step dancing traditions influenced the dancing of black Americans living in New York. Tapping and stomping of feet replaced drum beats...
In 2008, the band SLIDE, already an established band in Ireland, played a show in Limerick. Dave and another banjo player were the opening act. “We had a 45-minute set. That’s probably a bit too much banjo for an audience, so I decided to sing a song,” Dave said. It happened ...
strings), sarangi (a bowed fiddle), shehnai (an oboelike wind instrument), tabla (a set of two drums played by one musician, the right-hand drum carefully tuned), and tambura (a large long-necked lute with four strings, used only to play the supporting drone, a single repeated chord)...