Focus
Accordion players being recorded on stage in Hall an Phobail, Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, 10 July 2003
Purists All
Little captures the imagination like the idea of the ‘traditional music purist’ – though it’s a notion rife with inconsistencies. What is more, the idea appears to be as popular as ever, though for reasons, argues Toner Quinn, that have little to do with music…
Memory from one to infinity
Sligo New Music Festival, 24-26 March 2006.
'Don phobal as a dtáinig sé'
At the Sean-Nós Cois Life festival in Dublin in April, UCD scholar Ríonach uí Ógáin was presented with Gradam Shean-Nós Cois Life – one of only two people who are not singers to ever recieve this award – for her enormous contribution to research on traditional song and culture.
Shadows of Things
Iarla Ó Lionáird and Liam Ó Maonlaí.
Missing Persons
In the latest of an occasional series of articles featuring Irish composers, Bob Gilmore interviews Ailís Ní Riain from Cork, who is currently living in Manchester.
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. 
Vocal Musics of the Past
A review of Breandán Ó Madagáin's Caointe agus Seancheolta Eile: Keening and other Old Irish Music. 