Criticism
Live Reviews: Marie Keyrouz and her Vocal Ensemble of Peace
St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick
15 November 2007.
Live Reviews: Eliza Carthy
Spiegeltent, Queen’s University, Belfast21 October 2007The woman who was going to drag English folk music into the twenty-first century was at the Belfast Festival at Queen’s in Autumn, but watching the middle-aged and middle-class – that...
Live Reviews: Cork Jazz Festival
Various venues, Cork / 26-29 October 2007
Live Reviews: Music 21: Hugh Tinney / The Thing
NCH, Dublin/4 Dame Lane, Dublin / 28 September 2007
Live Reviews: Piperlink
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
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
Crawdaddy
9 October 2007
Live Reviews: Ryoji Ikeda
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,...
CD Reviews: ConTempo Quartet, Máirtín O’Connor, Garry O’Briain, Cathal Hayden – Spiccato Junction
Spiccato JunctionGalway Ensemble in Residence GER-CD-002Máirtín O’Connor and Cathal Hayden have been two of the most dynamic performers of Irish traditional music over the past few years, and on this sparkling CD they collaborate with the...