One of the best reasons to send a talented performance photographer to review a show: remarkable photos. Enjoy Brian Mengini's review and view of the Mann Center performance by Ireland's most popular girl group.

What Irish topics and issues do you really like to read about? Your answer could change the course of all human history. Or maybe the editorial decision-making of one small but plucky Irish Web site.

The harpers have all headed home from the 10th annual Somerset Folk Harp Festival. Here's a wrap-up of our intrepid Chief Harp Correspondent's final days at the festival.

Why do Liz and Yvonne Kane have such a distinctive sound together? It's all relative. Look for them in concert at the Irish Center on Sunday.

A group of Irish students will discuss the city's ethnic growing pains at a special program organized by Irish Network-Philadelphia and the Brehon Society.

Our chief harp correspondent (OK, our only harp correspondent) blogs from the 10th annual Somerset Folk Harp Festival.

A little traveling music, please! Several interesting trips caught our eye this week and when we see something, we say something.

The Kane Sisters from Connemara will be fiddling around here on Sunday--with a special guest they call "Crazy Legs." Musikfest in Bethlehem kicks off with an evening concert with 2U, the U2 tribute band. And for you Scottish Celts, the great folk group Malinky is in Delaware and Bethlehem. This week's free movie at the Irish Center is a thriller starring Brendan Gleeson and "Sex and the City's" Kim Cattrall.

More than half a dozen first-rate Irish plays are on the schedule for the 2010-2011 season in the Philadelphia region, including a couple of premieres. Get ready to be dazzled.

The band's best? Unfortunately, no. But for diehard Dog fans, there will still be plenty to gnaw on.