(Paul Faith/AFP/AFP) "It's never too late to start a new hobby," says 89-year-old Irish harp-maker Noel Anderson, one of only a few making the intricate instrument, a national symbol of Ireland. A ...

Harpist Zachary Adinolfi has been busy. Playing the Irish harp for fun, professionally and in competition, he is also on top of keeping up with his schoolwork, because Zach is 12 years old. On Dec. 4, ...

Nestled above the musical village of Naul, Sean Smyth pours his time, his talent and his soul into each and every Irish harp he makes. Smyth selects and sources wood for these Irish harps from around ...

David Kortier doesn’t claim Irish heritage. But he makes authentic early Irish harps, the kind played by Ann Heymann, an Irish harp music scholar and performer who lives in Winthrop, in southern ...

After many years of performing on the Seacoast, Regina Delaney and her New England Irish Harp Orchestra are traveling to Ireland for the performance of a lifetime. The group is preparing to depart in ...

“Thoughts of Ireland are always with me as I play,” said Moira Kelly as she moved her fingers across the strings of the harp that she has set up in her Georgetown driveway to play outdoors. “As I play ...

Siobhan (shuh-VAHN) Armstrong is one of today's top Irish harpers, and head of the Historical Harp Society of Ireland. She plays the ancient traditional wirestrung Irish harp that was popular from the ...

Natalie Surina was drawn to the ancient harps of Ireland. She doesn’t know quite what it was that called her to it. But she knows it was undeniable. “I had already been studying ancient Irish culture ...