The instructional video Ray Gallen: Bodhran Tutorial - Irish Heartbeat features the renowned master of the instrument offering a variety of tips to those just beginning to learn how to play the Irish ...

The bodhrán is one of Ireland's oldest traditional musical instruments. The bodhrán is the iconic Irish drum, one of a small select family of Celtic instruments that is stated to pre-date Christianity ...

There’s an old joke that goes, “What’s the best way to play a bodhrán? With a penknife.” The slag is reputed to have come from the piper Séamus Ennis – infuriated by beginners buying a bodhrán at a ...

When Cathy Jordan went on stage at this year’s TG4 Gradam Ceoil concert it was as amhránaí na bliana – singer of the year. But she closed the event accompanying herself on the bodhrán, so putting the ...

When percussionist and filmmaker Ruairí Glasheen delves into the history and origins of the bodhrán in his new four-part documentary about the drum often hailed as the heartbeat of Irish music, what ...

The Irish bodhrán a round drum that rose to popularity alongside the rise of traditional folk music in the 1950s and 60s. A huge part of the backbone of a lot of traditional Irish music that we hear ...

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 ...

The instructional video Ray Gallen: Bodhran Tutorial - Irish Heartbeat features the renowned master of the instrument offering a variety of tips to those just beginning to learn how to play the Irish ...