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The Midlands will have a rare chance to catch the award-winning bluegrass band Carmel Sheerin & The Ravens at Hugh Lynch’s Lounge on Sunday September 12.

SOON TO be released album The New Farming Scene from Edinburgh band Southern Tenant Folk Union creates the first true crossover of the modern folk tradition with its not-so-distantly related bluegrass sound.

HUNDREDS OF years ago the music played on Scottish and Irish fiddles combined with Spanish guitar, Italian mandolin, and West African banjo in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of America.

THE TOWN Hall Theatre will resonate to the sounds of Appalachian, bluegrass, country and gospel when The Molly Hicks take to the stage.

THE SCOTS and the Irish emigrated in droves to the United States throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, bringing their music, customs, and whiskey distilling techniques with them.

Musicians and fans of Bob Dylan can celebrate the legendary bard’s 69th birthday in an appropriate manner at Ryan’s on Friary Street next Wednesday.

“Come with me, I’ll guarantee you the best time you’ve ever had,” growls Chris Smither enticingly on the first line of ‘Don’t Call Me Stranger’, the opening song from his latest album ime Stands Still.

Cajun music developed in Louisiana among the French setters who moved there from Quebec after the British took over Canada.

CROOKED STILL play music inspired by American folk’n’trad, with traditional instruments such as banjo, fiddle, and double bass, but with the unusual addition of a cello.

“THERE ARE only three white blues singers, and Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.” This praise for the American singer and guitarist came from no less a songwriter than Richard Thompson.