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Live Reviews: Niwel Tsumbu and Clear Sky Ensemble Barra Ó Séaghdha Spiegeltent, Dublin Fringe Festival / 19 September 2007
Live Reviews: Concorde Fred Johnston Norman Villa Gallery, Salthill, Galway16 September 2007There comes a point where one must ask whether contemporary music is meant to be played or performed. A small standing audience – there were no chairs – in an upstairs gallery room on a Sunday...
Live Reviews: Tomasz Stanko Quartet Live Reviews: Tomasz Stanko Quartet Kevin Stevens Tomasz Stanko (trumpet), Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Slawomir Kurkiewicz (bass) & Michal Miskiewicz (drums) Vicar Street, Dublin 18 September 2007
Live Reviews: Masters of Tradition Pat Ahern John Flanagan, Kevin Crawford, Steve Cooney, Martin Hayes, Brian McNamara, Seán Smyth, Oisín MacDiarmada, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dennis Cahill Bantry House, Bantry, Co Cork15-19 August 2007Now in its fifth year, the Masters...
Live Reviews: Music 21: Hugh Tinney / The Thing Barra Ó Séaghdha NCH, Dublin/4 Dame Lane, Dublin / 28 September 2007
Live Reviews: Piperlink Fred Johnston Jimmy O’Brien-Moran, Emmet Gill, Seán Donnelly & Muireann Nic AmhlaoibhÁras na nGael, Galway29 September 2007Most followers of traditional music, and often the musicians themselves, are unaware of the history of the uilleann or ‘union’...
Live Reviews: Opera Theatre Company: Orlando Cathy Stokes Christian Curnyn (cond.), Annilese Miskimmon (dir.), William Towers (Orlando), Natasha Jouhl (Angelica), Reno Troilus (Medoro), Mary Hegarty (Dorinda) & Jonathan Best (Zoroastro)The Helix, Dublin29 September 2007Opera Theatre Company’s latest offering,...
Live Reviews: Lakker Rob Casey Crawdaddy 9 October 2007
Live Reviews: Ryoji Ikeda Seán Ó Máille IMMA Great Hall5 October 2007Ours is an information age. A tsunami of data surrounds us, overwhelms us, governs us. Ikeda takes streams from this flood and interprets them musically and visually. He is a sound engineer, crafting real time audiovisuals. A congregation,...

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