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Live Reviews: Dublin Electronic Arts Festival 4
Various Locations, Dublin, 27 – 31 October 2005 The annual Dublin Electronic Arts Festival has tried in its four years of existence to appeal to both the punters who just want to go out and dance and those of a more sedentary disposition. For its first...
E-debate: Music Education
Ita Beausang’s article on music education in the Sept-Oct issue of JMI evoked a strong letter from Richard Pine in our last issue. In this email debate we bring the two together to further discuss the future of music education in Ireland.
E-debate: Music Education
Ita Beausang’s article on music education in the Sept-Oct issue of JMI evoked a strong letter from Richard Pine in our last issue. In this email debate we bring the two together to further discuss the future of music education in Ireland.
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...