1. COVID-19: Updates on Festivals and Events
A list of concerts and festivals postponed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 virus.

2. COVID-19: What Help is Available for Artists and Arts Organisations?
Arts Council will honour all funding commitments despite cancelled events; self-employed artists who lose work can apply for Jobseeker’s payment.

3. COVID-19: Government Advises Cancellation of Public Events
Music and arts sector under pressure due to cancellations and postponements.

4. Podcast: The Next Twenty Years of New Music in Ireland – What Do We Need to Do?
This week’s podcast is a live recording of a panel discussion at the recent New Music Dublin festival at the National Concert Hall.

5. New Music Up a Notch
Ireland’s largest contemporary music festival New Music Dublin took place at the National Concert Hall and nearby venues last weekend and featured twenty concerts and twenty-two world premieres. Adrian Smith reviews.

6. Podcast: Finding Your Voice as a Folk Singer: An Interview with Daoirí Farrell
Dublin folk singer Daoirí Farrell speaks to Toner Quinn about starting to sing publicly in his twenties, his recent recordings, and the singers and musicians that have influenced him.

7. Sweet Siblings
Irish National Opera’s most recent production was a version of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ directed by Louis Lovett and Muireann Ahern. Tara Broderick reviews the Galway performance.

8. Can Anyone But Artists Themselves Solve Their Money Problems?
If artists and musicians are ever going to solve their perennial financial issues then it is time for a different approach, writes Toner Quinn.

9. Podcast: Why Now is the Time to Start a Record Label – An Interview with Gareth Murphy
Editor Toner Quinn speaks to author and Journal of Music contributor Gareth Murphy about why we need a new generation of record label owners, why now is the time to start one, and how to avoid the classic pitfalls.

10. Podcast: From River of Sound to the TG4 Gradam Ceoil – 25 Years of Change in Irish Music: An Interview with Laoise Kelly
Harper Laoise Kelly is this year’s recipient of the TG4 Gradam Ceoil traditional musician of the year award. She speaks to the Journal of Music about her musical upbringing, why Ireland really is a musical nation, and what the award means to her.