Criticism

Live Reviews: 12 Points! Festival: Light Airborne / Dimitar Bodurov / Nils Berg Kevin Stevens Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin 227 April 2007Improvised Music Company’s 12 Points! festival of new European jazz, which took place over four nights in late April at the Project, was a great idea waiting for someone like IMC artistic director...
Live Reviews: Galway Early Music Festival: The Irish Consort / Red Priest Fred Johnston The Life and Times of Grace O’Malley, the 16th Century-Century Irish Pirate Queen Augustinian Church, Galway, 17 May 2007Pirates of the BaroqueSt Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway, 18 May 2007 In spite of the Arts Council’s mind-numbingly culture-killing...
Live Reviews: Chris Wood Pat Ahern Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, 28 March 2007We first knew Chris Wood in these parts as the fiddle-playing half of a musically rich and good-humoured partnership with the accordion player, Andy Cutting. In more recent times, we have known him for his robust campaign...
Live Reviews: i-and-e festival Paul Watts Fergus Kelly/Judith Ring, Will Guthrie, Joe Colley, Wade Matthews/Andrea NeumannPrinting House, Trinity College, Dublin, 30 March 2007In its three-year existence, the i-and-e festival has become one of the most interesting annual events in Dublin. The purpose...
CD Reviews: Oisín McAuley CD Reviews: Oisín McAuley Niall Keegan Far From the Hills of Donegal reviewed by Niall Keegan.
CD Reviews: Cyprian Love CD Reviews: Cyprian Love Michael Quinn Musica Jubilans: Sounds of Glenstal / Glenstal Abbey SDGCD 646
CD Reviews: Barry Douglas, Camerata Ireland CD Reviews: Barry Douglas, Camerata Ireland Michael Quinn Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 5, ‘Emperor’ / Satirino SR063
CD Review: Finghin Collins CD Review: Finghin Collins Michael Quinn Schumann: Works for Piano, Volume 1 Claves 50-2601/02 (2 CDs)

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