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Boldly going where no fiddler has gone before
Saturday May 23 2009
I was sitting on the hard pews of the Unitarian Church on Dublin's Stephen's Green when I first heard Caoimhin O Raghallaigh play live. Playing in near darkness -- he was bathed only in the faintest blue light -- the fiddler wrung the most extraordinarily haunting sounds from his five-string viola.
an enchanting evening with the boys in the hoods
Saturday April 18 2009
If you happen to be in or around Temple Bar in Dublin this evening, don't be surprised by the unusual music in the air, nor indeed by the young men in black cloaks holding flaming torches aloft who are responsible. Chanting their way through the cobbled streets will be a vocal group called Crux.
'I finally found her at the Daybreak Disco, under the protection of my handsome comrade. Clearly they were getting on. Indeed, they were getting off'
Sunday March 02 2008
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Arvo reaches the parts other composers can't
Wednesday February 20 2008
THIS year's RTE Living Music Festival devoted itself, in the main, to a retrospective of Estonian-born composer Arvo Part.
White light
Friday October 19 2007
A gentle mist is rolling down from the hills overlooking Polly Harvey's postcard-pretty Dorset cottage. In the living room the singer is sipping tea, trying to marshal her thoughts. She's mulling over a question she's always considered thorny: what inspires her dark, torrid music?
Chic modern detail and old-world magic
Sunday May 27 2007
HELSINKI may have been on the tip of many people's tongues due to the recent Eurovision Song Contest, but it is very much more than a host city for an increasingly outrageous talent show. In fact, Helsinki is the opposite of all that is brash and bumptious.
Choral music from the wild west
Saturday October 21 2006
If you don't have the good fortune to live there, I suggest you get yourself down to Galway for a bit of what the military call R & R - rest and recreation.
People: TV Now is the hour for Brian
Thursday April 19 2007
There are many things we can call Brian McFadden - and 'brave' is definitely one of them.
ANNIE PROULX
Saturday April 21 2007
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