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Rapalje performing in 2010 Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe (the modern Celtic nations). 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Celtic music” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.