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A round-up of recent releases, including Róisín O, Tolü Makay, Ciarán Ruby, Wild Youth, Barry and Liam Douglas, and Mick O’Brien, Emer Mayock and Aoife Ní Bhriain. To submit your...

Music for Galway's annual winter festival to focus on four different versions of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
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Digital festival starts this Friday 15 January and features Eddi Reader, José González, Siobhan Miller, Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, Katherine Priddy, Aidan O’Rourke,...

Recipients include Hamish Napier, Tim Edey, Siobhan Miller, Skerryvore, Rebecca Hill and Josie Duncan.
Reviews

'Letters' is the new record release from Chamber Choir Ireland, consisting of recent works by Tarik O'Regan and David Fennessy. Mark Fitzgerald reviews.

Responding to the circumstances of the pandemic, Irish National Opera recently commissioned twenty new miniature operas from composers in Ireland that were filmed and premiered online as '20 Shots of Opera'. Adrian Smith reviews all twenty works.
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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.
From the Archive

One moment — BBC presenter Zane Lowe's on-air dismissal of Beyoncé's Glastonbury performance — has haunted Stephen Graham for months. To him it shows up layers of...
Oct 5, 2011

On the imperialist attitude taken by many classical musicians to music that is not notated.
Sep 1, 2001