Tommy PeoplesWaiting for a CallShanachie (CCF35CD)Tommy Peoples gracefully occupies a prime authoritative position on the top shelf of traditional fiddle players.
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This year's Galway Early Music Festival, with performances from early music specialists on authentic period instruments, takes place 17 – 20 May.
The Irish Composers' Collective next monthly concert will be given by Vox Merus on 31 May.
love:live music launches today with plans for over 200 free live music events around the country on 21 June next including Lá Ceoil in Dublin, Clonmel Loves Live Music, and with the participation of, among others, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Contemporary Music Centre, Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Eireann, the Opera Theatre Company, and Music Generation.
Ergodos present an intimate evening with the two musicians at The Back Loft in Dublin on 17 May.
Crash Ensemble will be ensemble in residence at this year's Huddersfield festival, whose early bird tickets have just gone on sale.
Being dedicated to her father, Michael Ryan (‘for loving the music so much that you did everything possible to help me love it too’), and featuring so many tunes Ryan learned from Tommy Maguire in the London Irish Centre, this is clearly a recording with a strong sense of tribute at its heart.
Winning works by Solfa Carlile, Bill McGrath and J. Harry Whalley will be premiered during the West Cork Chamber Music Festival.
NewSoundWorld's next monthly concert will be given by the Amstel Quartet and Maria McGarry on 16 May.
Performers such as Séamus Begley, Oisín MacDiarmada, Edel Fox, Dermot Bynre, Natalie Haas, Alan Doherty, John Spillane, Alan Kelly, Conal Ó Grada, and Niamh Parsons will feature in this summer's Steeple Sessions at the Unitarian Church on St Stephen's Green.
Carol-Ann McKenna has been appointed as the new General Manager of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland.
The composer will be joined by performers Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh on viola and Ed Devane on his homemade monochord for the third performance of his dronefield work.
The twin exhibitions of Rua Red's annual digital arts and technologies festival open 11 May and close 15 June with a performance from the Spatial Music Collective
CAN Percussion trio embark on an Irish tour on 13 June, playing four dates around the country before finishing up in Castlebar on 19 June.
A wide range of musical productions are at the heart of the just-announced Cork Opera House summer programme, including a concert by the Dubliners, the Irish premiere of John Cage's Song Books, a screening of Myles O'Reilly's film the Music Makers, and more concerts at Mitchelstown Cave.
The festival brings together contemporary movement and music from across Europe.
Focus
Laura Sheeran's densely textured songs are never planned and most are written and recorded in just one day. Anna Murray talks to the musician about her intuitive writing process, and the making of her latest, most aggressive album.
After being recognised for its enterprising qualities in the NUI Galway Student Enterprise Awards recently, the Tunes in the Church series is back this summer with a focus on music, musicians and audiences. Cormac Ó Beaglaoich talks about its success to date.
Stephen Graham listens to a range of new pop singles from artists such as Justin Bieber and Carly Rae Jepsen, and considers whether it makes sense to think of there being a traditional form of pop music.
Garrett Sholdice attends a La Monte Young performance at Berlin's MaerzMusik, and reflects on past experiences with Young's magical sustained tones.
Martin Dowling's and Úna Monaghan's performance of Owenvarragh, a Belfast Circus on The Star Factory, used Cage's Roaratorio template and Ciaran Carson's poetry to recreate the soundscape of Belfast. Robert McMillen describes the experience.
From the archive
When form was blown open
'Open form', Luigi Nono and Morton Feldman.
Letters: Up North! Reviews
Dear Editor,In response to the Cork reader whose recent letter (March/April 2003) expressed dismay at Up North! festival’s ‘dublin-centric’ programming and coverage: You mentioned both the Crash Ensemble and the Whispering Gallery as the...
CD Reviews: Cormac Kenevey
This is Living, Candid Records, CCD 79846 The front and back covers for This is Living suggest a rather jaded theme.
The Centre for Politicial Song
A report from the new Centre for Political Song in Glasgow Caledonian University.
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