March/April 2008
1 March 2008
Which social groups are more likely to attend different music events? Why are some people many times more likely to be involved in music than others? Are some people excluded from musical life? In February, the Economic and Social Research Institute issued...
1 March 2008
The first in a new series of traditional music columns by Ciaran Carson
1 March 2008
Breandán Ó hEaghra on what our national anthems say about us
1 March 2008
The sixth RTÉ Living Music Festival, featuring Arvo Pärt, took place on 15-18 February 2008 under the artistic direction of composer James McMillan. John McLachlan was there.
1 March 2008
In 2008, fiddle player Martin Hayes received the TG4 Gradam Ceoil award. Toner Quinn explores the work of an artist who has walked new ground in traditional music.
1 March 2008
Niall Ó Ciosáin reviews a new book on music in nineteeth-century Ireland, and revisits the controversy regarding the influence of nationalism on the development of Irish music.
1 March 2008
Aphasia Recordings, APHASIA 22The Sound we are now is a CD from a small, artist-run record label in Dublin, Aphasia Recordings. It springs from an interesting idea: label founders David Stalling and Anthony Kelly asked various artists to send in a piece that...
1 March 2008
Whirlie, WHIRLIECD12If Aaron Copland (1900-1990) – composer of evocative American odysseys – had a CD collection, you’d probably find a copy of Transatlantic Sessions 3 in there somewhere. Featuring over twenty-five folk and traditional musicians...
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