Criticism

CD Reviews: Catherine McEvoy CD Reviews: Catherine McEvoy Rory McCabe The Home RulerCló Iar-Chonnachta CICD172No matter how open and objective you may try to be, one cannot help but form various pre-judgements when encountering new traditional music recordings. You begin to recognise patterns in production and presentation...
CD Review: The Jimmy Cake – Spectre & Crown CD Review: The Jimmy Cake – Spectre & Crown Seán Ó Máille Spectre & Crown – Pilatus Records, PILCD-004
Live Reviews: Folk From Here Live Reviews: Folk From Here Garrett Sholdice Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York, England 7 May 2008
Live Reviews: Lunfardia Live Reviews: Lunfardia Pat Ahern Ariel Hernández (guitar, voice), Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin), Dermot Dunne (accordion), Malachy Robinson (double bass) & Frank Vidal (percussion) / Triskel Arts Centre, Cork / 11 March 2008
Live Reviews: The Poet and the Piper Seán Ó Máille Liam O’Flynn (uileann pipes), Seamus Heaney (poetry)National Concert Hall, Dublin16 March 2008The Poet and the Piper was introduced by Seamus Heaney as an echo of W.B. Yeats’ St Patrick’s Day reading of poetry with music in 1934. Self-deprecatingly,...
Live Reviews: Composers' Choice: Linda Buckley Rob Casey Fidelio Trio: Darragh Morgan (violin), Robin Michael (cello) & Mary Dullea (piano); Natasha Lohan (voice) John Field Room, NCH 25 March 2008.
Live Reviews: Sarah McQuaid Rory McCabe Ballina Arts Centre, Co. Mayo27 March 2008While walking around in the rain looking for the Ballina Arts Centre, I began to think that maybe I was in the wrong town. Nobody could give me directions: to Supermacs yes, but an arts centre? My impression was that...
Live Reviews: Efterklang Live Reviews: Efterklang Seán Ó Máille The Button Factory, Dublin / 29 March 2008
Live Reviews: i-and-e Barra Ó Séaghdha Boris Baltschun, Erik Carlsson, Roy Carroll, Axel Dörner, Kai Fagaschinski, Martin Küchen, David Lacey, Jason Lescalleet, Quiet Club (Danny McCarthy & Mick O’Shea), Fred Van Hove, Paul Vogel / The Unitarian & Peppercanister Churches, Dublin / 28–30 March 2008
Live Reviews: Seán Ó hÉanaigh Barra Ó Séaghdha Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin 2 / 11 March 2008

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