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Live Reviews: The Necks / Paul G. Smyth
Daghdha Space, Limerick3 November 2007Chris Abrahams’ hands rest silently on the piano keys, hesitate, reconsider, retreat. A second attempt to begin reveals a single tone, repeated with a silver care, racing ahead and pulling back. Drummer Tony...
Live Reviews: Fred Hersch Trio
Fred Hersch (piano), John Hebert (bass) and Eric McPherson (drums) / Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin / 17 November 2007
Live Reviews: ConTempo String Quartet / RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin / National Gallery, Dublin / 2 December 2007
Live Reviews: Rolf Hind (piano) & David Alberman (violin)
Printing House, Trinity College, Dublin4 December 2007Theloosely-themed programme of New Sound Worlds in December focussed on the developments made in twentieth and twenty-first century violin and piano music, highlighting the distance travelled between early...
Seosamh Ó hÉanaí & Tom Clancy
Galway traditional singer Seosamh Ó hÉanaí (centre) with, possibly, a relative (first right); Tom Clancy of the Clancy Brothers singing group (?) (first left); and, possibly, a neighbour of Ó hÉanaí’s. Photograph seemingly taken in Connemara in the 1970s,
Chasin' the Trane
On the fortieth anniversary of John Coltrane’s death, and in the context of recent commemorative events in Dublin, Kevin Stevens looks at the life and work of one of the greatest of jazz innovators
Ní theastaíonn stáisiún eile ó P. Diddy
The idea of a separate radio station in Irish for young people is back on the horizon, with a seminar on the subject organised as part of the Oireachtas. Successful pop artists, however, don’t need another radio station, argues Breandán Ó hEaghra. What is needed is a multi-cultural context for contemporary songwriting in Irish. Can a new station provide that?
Singing the Ancestors
Challenging the standard idea that traditional singing ‘can’t be taught’, Fintan Vallely argues that there is now an urgent necessity to do so.
Crash's 10 Years
John McLachlan looks at the achievement of the Crash Ensemble as they celebrate their 10th anniversary.