Chulrua (cool-ROO-ah) translates from the irish as "Red Back." It was the name and distinguishing feature of the favorite wolfhound of the ancient Irish hero Fionn MacCumhail, a.k.a. Finn MacCool. Chulrua plays the old instrumental music of Ireland: jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas (yep, those are Irish too), and slides, along with walking marches, songs, slow airs, set dances, the harp music of Turlough O'Carolan, and more. "We strive to present these tunes and songs in keeping with the old tradition -- as they were handed down from generation to generation in Ireland," say the members of Chulrua. (Of course, sometimes it takes a foreigner to pull that off -- fiddler Patrick Ourceau is a Frenchman now living in New York City.) In a time when almost everything is a fusion of something and something else, how about a dose of deep Irish tradition?