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CD Reviews: Niamh Ní Charra Adrian Scahill Ón Dá Thaobh/From Both SidesImeartas Records IMCD001An apt title reflects Ní Charra’s fluency and proficiency on both concertina and fiddle, as well as her ability to fluidly slide between different refractions of the music. The...
CD Reviews: Aoife Granville Adrian Scahill Sráid Eoin ShuffleAG001This solidly traditional album comes from an interesting musician – Aoife Granville is a typically bimusical traditional player, with a long history of involvement in art music in addition to her deep roots within local...
CD Reviews: Ian Wilson CD Reviews: Ian Wilson Michael Quinn Veer / Riverrun Records RVRCD77 / The Callino Quartet
CD Reviews: Phil Ware Trio    CD Reviews: Phil Ware Trio Kevin Stevens In Our Own Time / Pewter Music (689076561365)
Live Reviews: 12 Points! Festival: Light Airborne / Dimitar Bodurov / Nils Berg Kevin Stevens Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin 227 April 2007Improvised Music Company’s 12 Points! festival of new European jazz, which took place over four nights in late April at the Project, was a great idea waiting for someone like IMC artistic director...
Live Reviews: Galway Early Music Festival: The Irish Consort / Red Priest Fred Johnston The Life and Times of Grace O’Malley, the 16th Century-Century Irish Pirate Queen Augustinian Church, Galway, 17 May 2007Pirates of the BaroqueSt Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway, 18 May 2007 In spite of the Arts Council’s mind-numbingly culture-killing...
Tom Munnelly at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Clare, 1980 Tom Munnelly at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Clare, 1980 Images from the Irish Traditional Music Archive Traditional-song collector Tom Munnelly (second, left) with Clare traditional singers Tom Lenihan, Miltown Malbay; Kate Droney, Ballyvaughan; Martin Reidy, Connolly; and Michael ‘Straighty’ Flanagan, Inagh, at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown...
Ní ón ngaoth a fuair sé é: Aloys Fleischmann, 1910–92 Ní ón ngaoth a fuair sé é: Aloys Fleischmann, 1910–92 Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin reviews a biography of the composer Aloys Fleischmann and remembers a seminal figure in Irish musical life.

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