Rita McAuliffe spends most Saturdays teaching traditional Irish music at the Greater Danbury Irish Cultural Center. McAuliffe, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., teaches the tin whistle, flute and the Irish banjo ...
As an Irish banjo player with an appreciation for American picking, David Howley can speak with transatlantic perspective when discussing folk music and the banjo’s place in it. And as one-fourth of ...