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A round-up of recent releases, including Clare Sands and Susan O'Neill, NewDad, Míde Houlihan, Æ MAK, CMAT, and Laura Cannell and Kate Ellis. To submit your music for...
Seven concerts to take place during the festival featuring performances by Alex Petcu, Marja Gaynor, David Power and John Walsh, Kelley Lonergan Petcu, Izumi Kimura and Cora Venus...
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Featured artists include Aoife Ní Bhriain, Ani Glass, Juice Menace, Sinead O’Brien, The Gentle Good and BERWYN.
The annual classical music conference will take place online on 10–12 March.
Pianists represent 28 countries; first round will take place on 6–10 April.
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Composer Nick Roth's new work 'Crann' is a poem setting and film work for three voices, tree, vessel and currach, commissioned by the literary festival IMRAM. Adrian Smith reviews.
Snowpoet – the London-based duo of Lauren Kinsella and Chris Hyson – release their third album 'Wait For Me' tomorrow. Anna Murray reviews.
Singer-songwriter Anna B Savage has recently released her debut album 'A Common Turn'. Andrea Cleary reviews.
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Music and broadcasting go hand in hand, but RTÉ's leadership role in music has been shrinking in recent years. Toner Quinn suggests four ways to turn the situation around.
What a year 2020 was. When it began, the outlook for the music industry hadn't looked so good in decades. Then came Covid-19, the industrial equivalent of a comet hurtling in from deep space. As we emerge into 2021, it's time for some damage assessment. What exactly has been destroyed? Who has benefitted from lockdowns? What has changed for good? And, asks Gareth Murphy, now that vaccines are arriving, can the music business bounce back even stronger than before, and what do those in the industry need to focus on?
‘Trad Nation’, a new book by fiddle-player and scholar Tes Slominski, questions how ‘Irish’ Irish traditional music is in a postnational music scene, and makes the case for separating the genre from ethnic nationalism. Helen Lawlor reviews.
Why is the public conversation around music important, and how do we make it stronger? Toner Quinn reflects on twenty years of publishing the Journal of Music and the changes that have taken place.
From the Archive
Garrett Sholdice attends a La Monte Young performance at Berlin's MaerzMusik, and reflects on past experiences with Young's magical sustained tones.
May 8, 2012
Adam Harper examines whether the concept of 'new music' makes sense in the twenty-first century, and discusses music's 'infinite' possibilities.
Aug 30, 2012
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