The top 3 Lehigh Valley-area concerts this week are action-packed with two tributes to legendary rock bands, and a Celtic punk/folk septet. First is the “World’s #1 Tribute to Bruce Springsteen & The ...

The New York State Fair is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this week by adding some Celtic folk and Irish punk to the 2023 concert lineup. Irish punk band The Prodigals will perform at the NYS Fair’s ...

Banjo player, folk music aficionado and actor/comedian Billy Connolly once described The Dubliners as “folk music’s Rolling Stones”. If that’s the case, then The Pogues were its Sex Pistols: ...

Considering how small Ireland is, the international popularity of Celtic music per capita is magically delicious. The jigs, dirges and reels from centuries ago are played as pristinely in Boston as ...

Shane MacGowan, the singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of Celtic punk band the Pogues who found success with the 1987 song “Fairytale of New York,” died on Thursday. He was 65. MacGowan’s ...

In his biography A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan English music journalist Richard Balls noted that, during the dark days of the late '80s, The Pogues' iconic frontman would gobble LSD ...

The hard-drinking singer-songwriter penned the dark holiday classic 'Fairytale of New York' and was the subject of Julien Temple's Johnny Depp-produced 2020 documentary 'Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds ...

This year marks Celtic-punk heavyweights Flogging Molly’s 25th year as a band. At least that was when singer-guitarist Dave King and fiddle player Bridget Regan — also King’s future wife — began ...

Shane MacGowan, the frontman of the Irish punk-folk band The Pogues, died of pneumonia, his wife has revealed. The “Fairytale of New York” songwriter died at 3 a.m. Thursday with his wife and family ...

Irish folk-punk pioneers, Lankum have announced a bone-shaking new single 'Ghost Town.' Originally created for an Oona ...

Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys announced they will make a stop in Evansville as part of their 2024 tour. "The St. Patrick's Day Tour" will be an 18-stop trip that kicks off in Ontario, California ...