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Encore! – Festival Review: RTÉ Living Music Festival 2006 – Steve Reich
A review of the fourth RTÉ Living Music Festival (17-19 February 2006) which featured the music of Steve Reich.
Live Reviews: Mostly Modern Festival
Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin / 3-4 March 2006
Live Reviews: Dublin Guitar Quartet
Lazybird (The International Bar), Dublin, 12 March 2006This gig served as an album launch for the Dublin Guitar Quartet’s debut album Deleted Pieces, which had just been released a couple of days beforehand on Greyslate Records, and attendance-wise it...
Vocal Musics of the Past
A review of Breandán Ó Madagáin's Caointe agus Seancheolta Eile: Keening and other Old Irish Music.
Live Reviews: Caoimhín Ó Raghaillaigh, with Jane Hughes and Lorcan Mac Mathuna
St Brendan’s Church, Bantry, 17 March 2006Outside the confines of the Church of St Brendan the Navigator in Bantry, the populace celebrated the National Feast with the customary mixture of ballads and booze. Inside, Caoimhín Ó Raghaillaigh...
Live Reviews: i-and-e festival
Various venues, Dublin / 31 March-1 April 2006
Drawing of John Loughran (1927–87) by Eamonn O'Doherty
Drawing made 14 July 1977 by artist Eamonn O’Doherty of fiddle-player and raconteur John Loughran in his home in Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone – from the Irish Traditional Music Archive travelling exhibition ‘The Northern Fiddler’.