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Live Reviews: Temple Bar Trad 2006, Festival Concerts – Thursday & Friday
Various venues, Temple Bar, Dublin, 26-29 January 2006Although Dublin has the greatest concentration of traditional musicians in the country, Temple Bar Trad, which took place over the last weekend in January, was the first broad-based festival of traditional...
Live Reviews: Temple Bar Trad 2006, Festival Concerts – Saturday & Sunday
Various venues, Temple Bar, Dublin / 26-29 January 2006
Live Reviews: Remote Viewing Workshop #9
The Boom Boom Room, Dublin28 January 2006The Remote Viewing Workshops are a series of monthly nights organised by Wire Horizon, a Dublin-based collective of musicians and promoters (www.wirehorizon.com). They take place in the Boom Boom Room, one of the better...
Live Reviews: Mike Nielsen and Louis Winsberg
Alliance Française, Dublin, 3 February 2006 As part of a drive to promote leading figures in Irish jazz, 2006 sees the Improvised Music Company running a series of concerts that feature an Irish musician performing in a complimentary international setting....
Live Reviews: Horizons – Kevin Volans
NCH, Dublin, 31 January 2006 / Andrew Hamilton – Map; Volans – Cello Concerto; Stravinsky – Four Études for Orchestra; Volans – Strip-weave / RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra / Gavriel Lipkind, cello; Robert Houlihan, conductor
Traditional Singer and Songmaker Eddie Butcher (1900–80)
TRADITIONAL SINGER AND SONGMAKER EDDIE BUTCHER (1900-80) FROM MAGILLIGAN, NORTH CO. DERRY, SINGING AT FÉILE NA BÓINNE, DROGHEDA, 1977
Beyond the Obvious
There is a new and very large advertisement for alcohol on the main street in my town, and the image is of a stylish and very contemporary-looking Irishman, dreadlocked and in his twenties, moodily playing a harp which has been painted Irish green and gold....
A Job with No Clock: Séamus Ennis and the Irish Folklore Commission
At just twenty-three years of age, Séamus Ennis went on his first collecting field-trip to Conamara on behalf of the Irish Folklore Commission. Here, Ríonach uí Ógáin, currently working on an edition of Ennis’ diaries during his time with the Commission (1942-1946), provides a fascinating glimpse into his collecting work – his exceptional talent as linguist, collector and transcriber, his deep love of music and song, and his warm rapport with many of the great tradition bearers.
Cead Cainte
Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin’s new CD Áilleacht and the enabling power of tradition.