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This week's online concerts and livestreams from Monday to Sunday.
A round-up of recent releases, including Sfiiinx, Aengus Hackett, Andy Irvine, Úna Keane, Minced Oath and Carina Drury. To submit your music for inclusion, please email...
Cooney wins three awards and receives Lifetime Achievement Award; Frank Harte inducted into Hall of Fame.
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Twenty-two-year-old pianist performed music by Kenny Garrett, Thelonious Monk and his own composition.
Concert will be free to view on the festival's website this Sunday.
Awards to be broadcast on BBC Alba on 12 December.
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Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and Ultan O’Brien's new traditional and experimental album probes the soundworld between voice, fiddle and viola. Adrian Scahill reviews.
The Irish mezzo Tara Erraught performed on 15 November at Dublin Castle as part of Irish National Opera's livestream series, Mezzo Masterpieces. Brendan Finan reviews.
The latest release from the traditional music label Raelach Records is its very first compilation album, featuring Noel Hill, Aoife Ní Bhriain, Pádraic Keane and Nell Ní Chróinín. Toner Quinn reviews.
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‘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.
The government’s funding announcement for the arts in Budget 2021 was unprecedented, and there are lessons to be learned from the way in which it came about, writes Toner Quinn.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of the great uilleann piper Leo Rowsome (1903–1970), his daughter Helena Grimes reflects on his legacy and remembers her musical childhood in Dublin.
From the Archive
In the first music review from our new Journal of Music/Clare County Council Music Writer Mentoring Scheme, Ian Bascombe reviews a recent Riches of Clare concert featuring an...
Jul 26, 2017
A review of two recent CDs by Irish composer Raymond Deane.
Mar 1, 2001
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11 December
Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and South Dublin County Council 