Dave Barnhill, former Pub Sessions organizer, stands in front of its former home at Dempsey's Pub. The day the music died came earlier than expected at Dempsey’s Pub. Then, last fall, it all came to a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Irish seem born with a love of music. At social gatherings, everyone’s always ready to sing his or her “party piece.” Performances are judged less by ...

Several musicians played a lilting Irish jig as they sat cozy in the corner of a stone-and-wood pub, the fiddle and flute players harmonizing. Two more walked in past the stone hearth and pulled ...