A look at some upcoming Irish/Celtic-related music events in Greater Boston, and slightly beyond.

•Cork-born accordionist/melodeonist Diarmuid Ó Meachair has rapidly become one of the more highly praised young musicians in recent years, and Boston has the good fortune to claim him – at least temporarily – as a resident.  Ó Meachair will make a couple of local appearances in the next few weeks: On April 10, at the Boston College Gaelic Roots series, where he’ll play as part of a presentation, “From Cork to Boston: The Life and Music of Irish Accordion Master Jerry O'Brien, 1988-1968,” by ethnomusicologist and Irish Echo columnist Dan Neely; and April 25 at the Irish Cultural Centre of Greater Boston in Canton. You can read a conversation with him on bostonirish.com.

•This would easily seem to fall into the “hot ticket” category: The trio of fiddler Tara Breen, concertina player Pádraig Rynne and guitarist Jim Murray will be in town for two shows: April 16 at The Burren Brian O’Donovan Legacy Series and April 17 at the Irish Culture Centre of Greater Boston. Breen has won fiddling championships and honors galore (and a few for flute and saxophone, too) and played with, among others, The Chieftains, and Stockton’s Wing. Her fellow Clare native Rynne – with whom she played in the band NOTIFY – is noted not only for his technical mastery but also for a creative, idiosyncratic compositional complement to his traditional repertoire. Murray has compiled an impressive resume that includes stints with the likes of Sharon Shannon, Altan, Seamus Begley, and the late Sinead O’Connor. The trio has released the albums “Nasc” and “Odyssey.” 

•Also on the Brian O’Donovan Legacy Series calendar is a performance on April 9 by one of New England’s long-time musical treasures, guitarist/vocalist Keith Murphy with his newest venture, the Band of Amber. For years, Murphy has been front and center in Irish, English, American and Canadian music, whether accompanying fiddlers such as Hanneke Cassel, Liz Carroll, and Brian Conway, performing with his wife Becky Tracy – a top-notch fiddler herself – or playing solo, with a song repertoire rich in traditional material. In 2023, he released the album “Bright Amber,” teaming with electric guitar, double bass and drums for a sound reminiscent of the 1960s/’70s folk-blues-jazz fusion. He continues in that direction with a band comprising Anand Nayak on electric guitar, Richie Barshay on drums, and Ty Gibbons on acoustic bass.

The series will hold another Revels Pub Sing on April 30, led by the ever-jovial David Coffin,  well known for his frequent appearances through Revels – where he is an artist-in-residence and a presenter in its School Enrichment Program – and his contributions to  Boston Harbor tours, not to mention his forays into social media. In addition to singing, Coffin plays concertina, recorders, whistles and a whole range of other wind instruments. 

•For those who enjoy the Quebecois-Celtic linkage, Genticorum will appear at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport on April 3. The trio, which is marking a quarter-century, brings energy, dynamism, and a special conviviality, even gentleness to their treatment of the music. Nicholas Williams’s flute, adds a soulfulness to their sound, and his accordion playing has a similar quality, which sits very well alongside the brilliance of Pascal Gemme’s fiddle, mandolin and foot percussion, along with Yann Falquet’s guitar and guimbarde (jaw harp). Their voices, whether solo or together, are robust yet infused with an affability and warmth. 

Ushering in May Day at the Shalin Liu will be the fiddle-cello duo Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas. Fraser is one of the leading Scottish fiddlers of the past few decades, and Haas has been a foundational figure in the use of cello in various forms of traditional music. In their duets, the two exchange riffs, trade off melody versus rhythm, and otherwise converse in various tones of emotion and intensity, drawing on Scottish and other Celtic traditions, as well as elements of Scandinavian, Breton, American, classical, jazz, and other music forms. In 2020, they marked their 20th anniversary with the release of their sixth album, “Syzygy,” consisting of original compositions.

•Scandinavian music also has found a following among many Celtic aficionados, and one of its most celebrated exemplars, Väsen, will be at Club Passim in Harvard Square on April 5 with shows at 5 and 7 p.m., and on April 10 at the Groton Hill Music Center. Olov Johansson and Mikael Marin were initially inspired to play Swedish folk music by spending time with older musicians in Sweden’s Uppland region. The pair later joined forces with innovative guitarist Roger Tallroth, adding components of rock, jazz, and classical, and over the trio integrated its own tunes into the mix, while collaborating and performing with musicians from around the world. Tallroth left the band in 2020 to pursue other musical projects, but Johansson and Marin have continued on, their performances featuring the nyckelharpa and a variety of other stringed instruments, including a blue electric viola. They’ve recorded two albums, “Vásen Duo” and “Mellikan,” and another with American trio Hawktail. 

•If you might like to explore the Celtic-Nordic music connection a little more, an April 13 concert at Brookline Music School will feature fiddler Tara Novak and guitarist Björn Wennås, from 2-3:30 p.m. Novak, with a solid background in classical music, has toured as a soloist or concertmaster with productions ranging from “Riverdance” and “Heartbeat of Home” to the Three Irish Tenors and “Aladdin.” She and her husband Ciaran Nagle perform as part of contemporary Irish folk band Ishna, whose members also include Wennås – a native of Sweden, he has indulged in a range of music genres, including jazz, chamber and Mediterranean, as well as Scandinavian and Celtic.

•For those who like to participate as well as watch and listen, the New England Folk Festival Association, more commonly known as NEFFA, will hold its annual gathering from April 25-27 at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center in Marlborough. The festival features music and dance from Irish, Scottish, English and New England, and farther afield, in large and small performance settings. And there are, as you might expect, jam sessions aplenty – some pre-planned, others more spontaneous. Also, vendors abound.