Arts and Entertainment
This coming month will see another homecoming for Boston-area native Eric McDonald, a musician with a lengthy and diverse portfolio, when he appears as part of Celtic roots trio Kalos on Sept. 3 at Club Passim in Harvard Square.
McDonald’s homecomings... Read more
Centered around the Shalin-Liu Performance Center, one of the more impressive venues in Greater Boston, the fifth Rockport Celtic Festival will take place Sept. 12-15, with an assortment of big-stage and intimate events that spotlight Celtic traditions – ... Read more
A look at upcoming Irish/Celtic-related music events in Greater Boston
•The Rockport Celtic Festival – one of many gifts from the late Brian O’Donovan to Celtic music aficionados – takes place from Sept. 12 to Sept. 15, mostly at the Shalin Liu... Read more
Award-winning actor-director-educator Fred Sullivan Jr, was born in Chelsea, educated at St. John’s Prep in Danvers, and spent 35 years as a member of the acting company at Trinity Rep in Providence, appearing in 130 productions. Over his distinguished... Read more
For some 25 years, Gloucester resident Michael O’Leary has been exploring, and celebrating, the connections between song and sea.
O’Leary has organized and led a series of regularly occurring “Celtic Music Sunset Sails” around Gloucester Harbor on the... Read more
A look at upcoming Celtic music-related events in the Greater Boston events
•She came through town in February, but you can never have too much of Karan Casey, who continues to flourish as one of Ireland’s most accomplished all-around artists – and not... Read more
A look at what’s coming up for some of Boston’s favorite stage talents as summer wanes.
Fred Sullivan, Jr. is devoting several weeks this summer to “Tootsie: The Musical.” Based on the Dustin Hoffman film of the same name, the stage musical focuses on... Read more
BCMFest (Boston Celtic Music Fest) will present a concert featuring the internationally renowned Irish band Lúnasa on March 8, 2025, in Somerville Theater – a new venture for Boston’s annual showcase of Celtic music and dance.
Ticket information and other... Read more
It’s fair to say that Adam Hendey, in a fairly short space of time, has become one of the more ubiquitous figures in the Boston Celtic music scene. Besides performing at venues and events like Club Passim, BCMFest and the Burren Backroom Series – now... Read more
Summer BCMFest will mark its first decade when it takes place on July 7 at Harvard Square’s Club Passim, with music from late morning into the evening from talented performers in Boston’s Celtic music community.
This year’s Summer BCMFest kicks off with... Read more
A look at some upcoming Irish/Celtic events in the Greater Boston area:
•Club Passim in Harvard Square hosts the annual Summer BCMFest on July 7, with entertainment beginning at 10 a.m. and lasting through the evening. Read more here.
On July 14, the club... Read more
“Yellow Face”Through June 23, Lyric Stage
Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang muddles truth and fiction in this satiric semi-autobiographical memoir about a playwright plunged into a swirl of hypocrisy following his protest of the star casting of... Read more
Offering cinematic beauty, off-the-beaten-track experiences and transcendently beautiful coastal scenery, the Wild Atlantic Way has been one of the island of Ireland’s most successful tourism stories. 10 years on, it is as compelling as ever.
An... Read more
Reverie Road • When these folks formed up about two years ago, you knew the result was going to be pretty darn good: accordionist/flutist John Williams and fiddler Winnie Horan – two of the co-founders of Solas – along with fiddler Katie Grennan (formerly... Read more
A look at some upcoming Irish/Celtic-related music events in Greater Boston
•Fódhla, the trio of Medford fiddler Ellery Klein and Maine residents Nicole Rabata (flute, whistle) and Bethany Waickman (guitar), makes a rare and welcome return to the Greater... Read more
Well-traveled and accomplished Boston-based fiddler Mari Black and Nova Scotian fiddler/pianist Troy MacGillivray – one of the leading lights in Cape Breton music for most of this century – team up on June 20 at Harvard Square’s Club Passim for a special... Read more
This month's events include album launches by Pine Tree Flyers (May 5, Club Passim). and Louise Bichan (May 8, Brian O'Donovan Legacy Series), which you can read about separately. Here's what else is going on:
•Two fiddlers in the Scottish and Cape... Read more
New England-based Scottish fiddler Louise Bichan seems to have a thing about journeys of discovery.
The epic travels of her grandmother, Margaret Tait, through Canada as a young woman provided the inspiration and the basis for Bichan's 2016 debut album... Read more
There are bands – whether Irish, pan-Celtic, rock-n-roll, jazz, pop, funk, death-metal, or any other genre – that come together by circumstance or by accident, or even just for laughs.
Then there are bands like the Maine-based Pine Tree Flyers, a... Read more
Robert Frost is, arguably, one of America’s finest poets. The four-time Pulitzer Prize winner was born in San Francisco in 1874. Following the death of his father, he and his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He graduated from Lawrence High... Read more