Gloucester native Emerald Rae has been singing for about as long as she has been fiddling, which is since childhood. But it’s only just now, she feels, that she has found her voice.

A mainstay of the Greater Boston area’s Celtic/folk music scene for nearly two decades, Rae recently released her third album, “Emerald Rae,” consisting of 10 original songs and accompanied entirely by her own fiddle, along with foot and hand percussion (plus a cameo appearance on electric bass by Garrett Sawyer on one track).

In today’s world of Facebook, dating apps, and rampant catfishing, it’s hardly a surprise when someone creates a fake profile online.
What may be surprising is that the practice isn’t all that new. In Oscar Wilde’s 1895 play “The Importance of Being Earnest,” the Irish playwright detailed the sticky Victorian situation experienced when a pillar of the community creates a fictional persona as an excuse to live a double life and circumvent tiresome social obligations.

The High Seas, “The High Seas” • One of the more captivating albums of recent years, not just for its content but also its context: Young performers hitting that sweet spot in presenting Irish music with skill, and respect for the tradition, and showing some imagination in the process. The musicians in question are Caitlín Nic Gabhann (concertina, step dance), her husband Ciarán Ó Maonaigh (fiddle) and Cathal Ó Curráin (vocals, bouzouki, fiddle).