Musician of the Month: Giulia Gallina
Music is a language and languages are musical. My life has always been about that:…
Browsing: Music
Musician of the Month: Matilde Politi
Do you know the feeling of wanting to discover secrets that aren’t being spoken aloud?…
Musician of the Month: Ian Fisher
Foreword Sometime in early 2022, in the middle of the fourth or fortieth wave of…
Musician of the Month: Hugo Vasco Reis
The process of discovering sounds has always been an aspect of music I’ve been connected…
Musician of the Month: Claudia Schwab
Of New Lands and Turning Points… “You can play! Just take it easy, play slow.…
The Giant Hare of Cloondarone
I felt myself still reliving a past that was no longer anything more than the…
Bringing Music Back to Dublin
Promoter, venue and band manager, Conal Lee reflects on the experience of musicians over the…
Musician of the Month: Marie Awadis
I still don’t know musically where I belong. Being classically trained as a pianist, but…
Musician of the Month: Justina Jaruševičiūtė
I sit at the piano and a melody flows smoothly from my mind. I think…
Musician of the Month: Alain Servant
Two months ago, after releasing my new album, Songs & Stories,Vol 1, I asked Irish…
Nightmaring America: A Love Story
For a number of years now, I’ve been convinced (too fervently, in the opinion of…
Musician of the Month: Éamonn Cagney
I realised that I really like writing through doing this, and that there’s plenty more…
Swing into Summer Sunday Jazz Gala
When a respected and much-loved member of the Irish jazz scene suffered a major illness,…
Musician of the Month: Ciara Sidine
In Blood, Sex and Death, I Found Her Janet is pregnant and alone. Her boyfriend…
Musician of the Month: Donal Gunne
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. And that is poetry. As…
Musician of the Month: Ellie O’Neill
I’ve never needed a reason to write a song. There have never been any conscious…
‘It’s not a case of men vs women’: Mise Fosta in Irish Trad
In a suburban Dublin pub ten men aged sixty and over have gathered in a…
Musician of the Month: Judith Retzlik
One comment I hear most often is: “you are doing so many different things!” Followed…
The Hero’s Journey
Twelve years ago I was asked to sing a selection of traditional Irish love songs…
Musician of the Month: Justin McCann
So what, and why, is music? Why is the organisation of meaningless noises into arbitrary…