Music and Meltdowns
Paul Sullivan
From Björk and Sigur Rós to Cortes and Emilíana Torrini, the success of Icelandic artists over the past two decades have earned a global reputation for the Icelandic music scene. Paul Sullivan looks at some of the elements that have helped such a small country become a big player, and asks what effect the current economic crisis will have.
Live: Rachel Unthank and The Winterset
Seán Ó Máille
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin3 February 2009It would be all too easy to think that a gallery is the perfect place for folk musicians to play. For some, folk music is out of time, only to be preserved, commemorated, pinned like a beautiful butterfly through...
Live: Temple Bar Trad: T with the Maggies
Aengus Ó Maoláin
Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Moya Brennan and Mairéad Ní MhaonaighButton Factory, Dublin31 January 2009Engaging eminent musicians alongside bright young stars, the 2009 Temple Bar Tradfest hoped cross-pollination...
Concorde
Barra Ó Séaghdha
Elaine Clark (violin), Martin Johnson (cello), David James (cello), Madeleine Staunton (flute), Paul Roe (clarinet), Roberto Oliveira (percussion), Tine Verbeke (soprano), Jane O’Leary (piano) / Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin / 15 February 2009
Tanya Tagaq Gillis
Stephen Graham
Tanya Tagaq Gillis (vocals), Michael Edwards (laptop), Kenton Loewen (percussion)Café Oto, London16 February 2009Tanya Tagaq Gillis works in a variety of vocal styles, from her native idiom of Inuit throat singing, to super-charged and loose-limbed...
Derek Ball
Rob Casey
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra; Robert Houlihan (conductor); Matthew Jones (viola)
National Concert Hall, Dublin
3 February 2009.
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