Bob Drouin has led a weekly Irish music session at Patrick's Pub in Providence for 30 years. An Irish session, or seisiún, is an informal gathering where musicians play traditional tunes and sing. The ...

Several musicians played a lilting Irish jig as they sat cozy in the corner of a stone-and-wood pub, the fiddle and flute players harmonizing. Two more walked in past the stone hearth and pulled ...

The veteran musicians gathered around the large table at the back of Rory O’Connor’s Irish Pub, surrounded by their instruments. Irish fiddle champion Eamon Coyne, who now lives in Merrimac, began to ...