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CD Reviews: Somadrone
Of Pattern and PurposeTrust Me I’m a Thief Neil O’Connor has been very active in the Irish music scene over the last decade or so: he started in the 90s as a member of Loretta, then played with indie-popsters Palomine, but is probably best known...
Live Reviews: The Dumbshow
JJ Smyth’s, Dublin / 12 August 2007
Live Reviews: John Williams, Masahiro Nitta and Dean Magraw
National Concert Hall, Dublin14 June 2007Billed as ‘Dynamic Japanese Tsugaru Shamisen Meets Ireland’, this intriguing concert was organised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Ireland....
Live Reviews: Young Composers' Collective
New Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin / 29 July 2007
Live Reviews: Jennifer Walshe's Grove of Drift
Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin11-14 July 2007On arrival the visitor is asked to take a torch from the table beside the entrance to the installation. As the door shuts behind you, the light you carry leads you down a pitch black corridor to composer...
Tommy Makem (1932-2007)
Publicity photo of Armagh professional singer, instrumentalist and songwriter Tommy Makem with American five-string banjo, c. 1969
In Safe Hands?
Dermot McLaughlin discusses traditional music and the role of the Arts Council
'...free from every misfortune...'
Ríonach Uí Ógáin (editor) ,‘Mise an fear ceoil’: Séamus Ennis – Dialann Taistil 1942-1946