I remember the instant I first saw the Apple Newton. EUREKA ! THE CELLULAR COMPUTER !! I was a computer supplies salesman, on foot in the SF Financial District. My job was good and fun, but I …

This unique album was recorded 15 years ago by Neil Young in Canyon and recently re-mastered by Toby Seeger in Davis. Nauticas is Peter Kasin on fiddle, Riggy Rackin on concertina, Shay Black on …

Marla Fibish plays mandolin like no one else in Irish music. The second you hear one of her students play you’ll say, “Marla taught you to play, it’s obvious” and they’ll say, “Yes.” Other than the people …

The Roman diaspora following the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD sent Jews all over the known world. Many subsequent events pushed them out of one place to another, most …

Jason Pollack is one of the premier Irish Fluters in the SF Bay Area. Jason: My Dad was a psychiatrist. He had the Newman family name on his mother’s side. His father was Pollack, but died when he was …

Riggy looks authentic. He looks like one of those guys who sits in the back of the general store or the forecastle of a ship and spits tobacco juice on the floor, but people put up with him because he can …

I met Mary in the spring of 1986, at the Castle Folk Club in San Francisco. It was just like the traditional English folk clubs I'd experienced while living in the UK 15 years earlier; a "select room" upstairs …

I’ve been singing about Jesus all my life, without being a “believer” in any sense of the word. I bet it started with those tiny booklets of Christmas Carols that the John Hancock Insurance Company gave …

For the past 25-plus years I've been playing traditional Irish music on a variety of instruments, including Uilleann pipes, tin whistle, wooden flute, Anglo concertina, and B/C-tuned button accordion. Since …

Peter Kasin is a fiddler’s fiddler; or really, a musician’s fiddler. His clean take on traditional tunes, with strong bowing and great intonation, makes him a wonderful tune leader. I’m very grateful that I am …