Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe. It refers to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded music and the styles vary considerably to include everything from traditional music to a wide range of hybrids.
Rapalje performing in 2010
An 18th century depiction of an ancient Druid playing the harp
Celtic harp performed at a modern Celtic festival
Alan Stivell at Nuremberg, Germany, 2007
The modern Celts are a related group of ethnicities who share similar Celtic languages, cultures and artistic histories, and who live in or descend from one of the regions on the western extremities of Europe populated by the Celts.
Delegates at the Pan-Celtic Congress, Caernarfon, 1904. Back row: Maggie Jones (harpist of Arfon); Mrs Gruffydd Richards (chief harpist of Gwent), David Roberts (blind harpist of Mawddwy), Gwyneth Vaughan. Front row: Pedwr James, Émile Hamonic, Léna Botrel, Théodore Botrel, Professor Paul Barbier
Cloths tied to a tree near Madron Well in Cornwall
Traditional Galician gaiteiros
Breton harpist and Celtic music exponent Alan Stivell at Nuremberg, Germany, 2007
