Having friends who are musicians has enlightened me about the persona of many musical instruments. It didn’t take me long to realize the banjo is a joke to many. I never knew that and, frankly, don’t ...

RADFORD, Va. – The Radford Highlanders Festival returns Saturday, Oct. 11, at Radford University’s Moffett Field. The event celebrates Scots-Irish heritage with traditional Highland Games like caber ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The Celtic Music & Heritage Festival in St. Augustine entered its final day on Sunday. The popular two-day celebration recognizes Scottish, Irish, and Welsh heritage all weekend ...

Monroeville’s Hillcrest United Presbyterian Church recently celebrated Scottish Heritage Sunday — a day filled with a special service, music and food. The all-ages, community-wide celebration on May 4 ...

“The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years from Colonial ...

For Janelle Asselin, it started with 10 pages of family records, tales of ancestors that spanned Ireland, Canada and the United States. After a decade of research, she eventually found that John ...