Focus
Live Reviews: Debashish Bhattacharya
(chaturangi – 22-string guitar) / Farmleigh Salon Series (programmed by Improvised Music Company), Farmleigh, Castleknock, Dublin, 17 July 2006
The group Seachtar, 1974
The group Seachtar, which within a year or two and with some change of personnel would become internationally famous as the Bothy Band.
Ó Riada's Vision
As a child, singer Iarla Ó Lionáird witnessed the extraordinary impact that Seán Ó Riada had on Cúil Aodha in the Irish-speaking area of Cork in the 1960s. On the 75th anniversary of Ó Riada's birth, Ó Lionáird teases out the composer's vision as represented by the choir he founded, and the song the choir constructed in the wake of Ó Riada's death – 'Sé Mo Laoch, Mo Ghile Mear...', the 'laoch' (hero) representing Ó Riada himself...
On the naming of things
John McLachlan looks at the significance and origins of musical titles.
MC Hill
The Bray Jazz Festival 2006.
Music at hi-res
Notes from the Heart by Mick, Louise & Michelle Mulcahy and Buílle by Niall and Caoimhín Vallely and Paul Meehan.
‘Ag Tarraingt as an Dúchas’
Micheál Ó Conghaile agus Cló Iar-Chonnachta.
Hard Core Values
The Sonorities Festival 2006.