Robert McMillen reports on a concert by the Ulster Orchestra paying tribute to Carl Hardebeck, the blind composer of German extraction who came to Belfast and fell in love with traditional Irish ...

Sure, here is the new description with all the links and additional text removed: On Christmas Eve 1914 the artillery shelling and bombardments stopped for a little while. During those Christmas days ...

Sure, here is the new description with all the links and additional text removed: On Christmas Eve 1914 the artillery shelling and bombardments stopped for a little while. During those Christmas days ...

The Spizzwinks of Yale University bring their lively vocal harmonies for a rare appearance in western North Carolina! A free ...

Pupils at Barnard Castle School in County Durham celebrated Founders Day, honouring the school’s centuries-old history with a special service.

Emerging from a swirl of sonic influences, reggaeton began as Panamanian protest music long before Puerto Rican artists turned the genre into a global phenomenon.

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Why is the truce still remembered? In a horrific war that claimed the lives of 10 million soldiers, the Christmas Truce represents an extraordinary moment of human kinship. When the First World War ...

On Christmas Eve in 1914, many men were in the trenches fighting the war, but the spirit of Christmas halted the conflict for a brief period. This is the story … The trigger for the Great War was the ...

It was once called the War to End All Wars, but World War I dragged on year after year. Governments were shattered, lives were destroyed, and many more wars came in its wake. But for one moment in ...

Christmas 1914. Allied and German soldiers suspend arms for a night of song and hope. The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man ...

All Is Calm, a play with acapella singing, will open Tuesday, Nov. 11, on Veterans Day and continue on Nov. 13, 14 and15 at the Cedar Street Playhouse. Weeknight performances are at 7 p.m., with a 2 p ...