There’s an old joke that goes, “What’s the best way to play a bodhrán? With a penknife.” The slag is reputed to have come from the piper Séamus Ennis – infuriated by beginners buying a bodhrán at a ...

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Of all the instruments in traditional music, the bodhran has arguably enjoyed the most spectacular renaissance. When Paddy Moloney was forming the Chieftains in the early 1960s, he recalls that ...

A LEADING traditional Irish music enthusiast has struck a sour note with some aficionados by suggesting that guitar and bodhran players are a "total distraction" and have no place in folk music. Mayo ...