This comprehensive guidebook covers all that is Celtic in music today through essays exploring solo artists bands singers and players of specialized instruments such as harps pipes fiddles drums squeezeboxes whistles mandolins and more. Performers profiled range from the rock-influenced group Clannad to Welsh band Ar Log Brittany group Gwerz singer Christie Moore harpist/piper/singer Alan Stivell and many more! Reviews guide readers to the essential recordings as well as unexpected genre-expanding discoveries for any new or established Celtic collection.