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Live Reviews: INTRO 05
Firkin Crane, Cork, 30 Oct 2005Rick Peckham, musical director; Aoife Doyle, voice; Simone Mendonca, violin; Matt Berrill, alto sax, clarinet; Bill Blackmore, trumpet; Colm O’Hara, trombone; Julie Cruickshank, piano; Stephen McFarlane, guitar; Andrew...
Live Reviews: ECM Autumn Cycle – Jon Balke's Magnetic North Orchestra
Whelan’s, Dublin, 17 November 2005
Live Reviews: Rachid Taha
Vicar Street, Dublin, 24 November 2005
Live Reviews: Musical Migrations – Irish Voices
(Paddy in the Smoke – Irish traditional music from England; Iarla Ó Lionáird & Band; Donal Lunny & Friends)Various venues, Cork , 23–26 November 2005Irish Voices, the third and final instalment in the Musical Migrations series,...
Recent Publications
CDS PUBLISHED 2005Benny O’Carroll’s Traditional All-Ireland Band, instrumental & vocal, Dance it Yourself! Pinorrekk Records PRDVD3405040 (CD with DVD)Burke, Kevin, fiddle, & Ged Foley, guitar, singing in English, In Tandem, Burke &...
RTÉ Broadcaster and Collector Ciarán Mac Mathúna
RTÉ BROADCASTER AND COLLECTOR CIARÁN MAC MATHÚNA C. 1960 RECORDING JOHN RYAN, A CONCERTINA PLAYER FROM DONOHILL, CO TIPPERARY, IN RYAN’S PUBLIC HOUSE ON THOMAS ST, DUBLINCiarán Mac Mathúna recently retired from fifty...

Recent Publications in Contemporary Music
Continued from JMI July-August 2005NEW WORKS RECIEVED AUGUST–OCTOBER 2005 Agnew, Elaine, Ready, Steady, Go! [2004], 2 vn va vc; Sixth of January [2005], 2 vn-solo, str; Slide [2005], vn; Alcorn, Michael, Psallo [2005], hrp, live electronics. Bennett,...