On a quiet Monday night in an empty pub in North Beach, the fiddle of Brian Theriault can be heard crying from a far corner. It is just one instrument in a traditional Irish session that includes ...
“I’ve had an enormous time with my fiddle since I came to America,” says Mick Gavin. The 71-year-old Irish immigrant has 12 fiddles, but the one in his hands — a 200-year-old instrument coated in ...