Criticism
Live Reviews: Dublin Guitar Quartet
Lazybird (The International Bar), Dublin, 12 March 2006This gig served as an album launch for the Dublin Guitar Quartet’s debut album Deleted Pieces, which had just been released a couple of days beforehand on Greyslate Records, and attendance-wise it...
Live Reviews: Caoimhín Ó Raghaillaigh, with Jane Hughes and Lorcan Mac Mathuna
St Brendan’s Church, Bantry, 17 March 2006Outside the confines of the Church of St Brendan the Navigator in Bantry, the populace celebrated the National Feast with the customary mixture of ballads and booze. Inside, Caoimhín Ó Raghaillaigh...
Live Reviews: Temple Bar Trad 2006, Festival Concerts – Saturday & Sunday
Various venues, Temple Bar, Dublin / 26-29 January 2006
Live Reviews: Remote Viewing Workshop #9
The Boom Boom Room, Dublin28 January 2006The Remote Viewing Workshops are a series of monthly nights organised by Wire Horizon, a Dublin-based collective of musicians and promoters (www.wirehorizon.com). They take place in the Boom Boom Room, one of the better...
Live Reviews: Mike Nielsen and Louis Winsberg
Alliance Française, Dublin, 3 February 2006 As part of a drive to promote leading figures in Irish jazz, 2006 sees the Improvised Music Company running a series of concerts that feature an Irish musician performing in a complimentary international setting....
Live Reviews: Horizons – Kevin Volans
NCH, Dublin, 31 January 2006 / Andrew Hamilton – Map; Volans – Cello Concerto; Stravinsky – Four Études for Orchestra; Volans – Strip-weave / RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra / Gavriel Lipkind, cello; Robert Houlihan, conductor
A Tradition Flowering
Tradition in the midst of a flowering in Come West Along The Road, a DVD of traditional music from the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
Live Reviews: Horizons – Elaine Agnew
NCH, Dublin, 17 January 2006Lutoslawski – Musique Funèbre (á la mémoire de Béla Bartók); Agnew – Slasp; Kats-Chernin – Heaven is Closed; Agnew – Straight to the PointRTÉ National Symphony Orchestra;...
