Uri Caine to perform in St.Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda Friday 5 March 2010.
“Uri Caine is a king among princes, a consummate musician who sounds great whether playing Bach, accompanying Don Byron on Puccini’s Nessun Dorma, wrangling an ambitious avant-jazz ensemble around the music of Mahler . . . . . He is prolific, hugely [...]
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22 Feb
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29 Jan
Niamh Tiernan is holding a gamelan weekend for teens/adults on March 6th and 7th, 10am-6pm both days, with the possibility of doing a short performance at the end of the second day. The venue is City North Hotel in Gormanston, Co. Meath, just off the M1 Dublin-Belfast motorway, Junction 7. If you are interested you [...]
26 Jan
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A Place Between
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Contemporary music recordings don’t tend to feature in top ten lists, partly because lack of air-time on radio is matched by audience lack of familiarity. While some composers, such as John Tavener, Henryck Górecki and Arvo Pärt, have crossed that line into popular consciousness: others, such as the late John [...]
08 Jan
On December 14th 1909, explorer Ernest Shackleton was in Dublin, lecturing at UCD about his Nimrod Antarctic expedition.
Next week, exactly 100 years on, composer Michael Holohan will commemorating the moment with a new piece of music theatre http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/1211/1224260495694.htm
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