Criticism
Live Reviews: Roger Doyle, Cormac Breatnach and Martin Dunlea
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, 29th September 2005
Live Reviews: Ian Wilson – Winter Finding
Friday 16 September saw the world premier of Ian Wilson’s Winter Finding by the National Symphony Orchestra in their usual Friday night NCH slot, under the direction of Gerhard Markson. The performance had been postponed from earlier in the year due...
Live Reviews: Raymond Deane – Concursus (world première)
Irish Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Deane: Concursus (world première); Thurs 21 April 2005
St Mary’s Church, Mallow, Co. Cork; Katherine Hunka, Director
Live Reviews: Improv at the Printing House Festival
Saturday 23 April / The Printing House, Trinity College, Dublin

CD Reviews: An Tobar Glé - Neil Mulligan
Neil Mulligan – An Tobar Glé– Shore Records SCD 1049One of the driving influences in the development of traditional music is the process of transmission. Maybe transmission is not always how it looks and feels at first hand – within...

CD Reviews: At It Again – John Carty
At it again, the whimsically titled new CD from multi-instrumentalist John Carty sees him this time eschewing banjo, flute and tenor guitar to instead confine his talents exclusively to the fiddle. On this recording he draws much of his repertoire from the...
CD Reviews: Kíla - Luna Park
KílaLuna Parkkíla recordsPushing boundaries, wrestling with the form, taking ‘liberties’ with the sacrosanct immutable tradition (mar dheá), fusing/fusion, hybridisation, attitude. These are some of the things that come to...
CD Reviews: Séamus Quinn and Gary Hastings
Séamus Quinn and Gary Hastings Slán le Loch Éirne – Stories to Tell Cló Iar-Chonnachta CICD 152This is very fine recording from two excellent musicians. Séamus Quinn and Gary Hastings played a lot of music together while...