BRATTLEBORO -- It takes a lot to impress the people who know you best. For April Verch, grudging admiration from old friends in the Ottawa Valley town of Pembroke, Ontario, came only after they saw ...

SALISBURY — Irish step dancing dates back to 1750, and competing in the dance dates to the 1890s. The dance is still popular, though, and Rowan County’s own Rachel Newman is a 12-year-old Irish dancer ...

Now in its 13th year, IrishFest Atlanta has grown into a vibrant celebration of Irish heritage, gathering roughly 4,000 people for a three-day festival at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center and Roswell ...

April Verch is a step dancer, a fiddler and since 2003, a singer. Her music spans everything from the traditional fiddle tunes of her native Ottawa Valley, Canada, to blues, jazz, folk and Latin. That ...

EAST GRAND FORKS — Jeanne O’Neil, co-founder of North Country Fiddle and Dance, isn’t worried about the traditional songs and dances her organization helps put together going away anytime soon. While ...

Master step dancer and caller Pierre Chartrand accompanied by Alexis Chartrand and Nicolas Babineau, step dancer and street performer Mélissandre Tremblay-Bourassa, and Turning Stile will entertain ...

WEST KENNEBUNK, Maine – Andrea Beaton, Troy MacGillivray and Sabra MacGillivray – some of Atlantic Canada’s finest performers of traditional music and dance – will appear in an extraordinary concert ...