Traditional Irish Music — Trad Sessions, Uilleann Pipes & Sean-Nós

Traditional Irish music (the genre of instrumental and vocal folk music indigenous to Ireland — jigs, reels, hornpipes, slow airs, and polkas performed on fiddle, uilleann pipes (the Irish bellows-blown bagpipe), tin whistle, flute, accordion, concertina, and bodhrán (the Irish frame drum)) is the living musical tradition that defines Irish cultural identity globally: the traditional music session (the informal gathering of musicians in a pub to play tunes together, open to all who can keep up) is the most democratic musical tradition in the world, and the Dublin trad scene is the most concentrated and accessible in Ireland.