Criticism

CD Reviews: Eliot Grasso – Up Against the Flatirons Adrian Scahill Up Against the FlatironsNa Píobairí Uilleann NPUCD014It’s a measure of the strength and depth of Irish traditional music in America that the first in a new series of CDs issued by Na Píobairí Uilleann, entitled The Ace and...
CD Reviews: The Smith Quartet – Ghost Stories CD Reviews: The Smith Quartet – Ghost Stories Michael Quinn Ghost Stories / Signum Classics SIGCD088
CD Reviews: Perfect State – The Music of Ciarán Farrell CD Reviews: Perfect State – The Music of Ciarán Farrell Michael Quinn RTÉ Concert Orchestra/David Brophy; The Smith Quartet; Craig Ogden; Gerard McChrystal; Sinéad Farrell; Roger Moffatt // RTÉ Lyric FM CD113
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
CD Reviews: Somadrone Paul Watts Of Pattern and PurposeTrust Me I’m a Thief Neil O’Connor has been very active in the Irish music scene over the last decade or so: he started in the 90s as a member of Loretta, then played with indie-popsters Palomine, but is probably best known...
CD Reviews: Nuala Kennedy CD Reviews: Nuala Kennedy Niall Keegan The New Shoes reviewed by Niall Keegan.
Live Reviews: The Dumbshow Kevin Stevens JJ Smyth’s, Dublin / 12 August 2007
Live Reviews: John Williams, Masahiro Nitta and Dean Magraw Adrian Scahill National Concert Hall, Dublin14 June 2007Billed as ‘Dynamic Japanese Tsugaru Shamisen Meets Ireland’, this intriguing concert was organised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Ireland....

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