The modern concert pedal harp is very different to the stringed instrument used to accompany Irish folk music, or the first versions of it found in 2500 BC. It is more powerful and richer in tone, ...

Irish music is on a roll, with Fontaines DC on the brink of playing stadiums and acts such as Lankum and NewDad putting a new twist on folk balladry and wispy indie rock. But if they are today’s stars ...

That's a folk group, that performed largely vocal-less Irish traditional music while sitting down and whose image was largely 'guys in the back corner of a pub', beating some of the biggest groups ...