Martin Hayes: How I smashed my fiddle and stopped drinking
The fiddle player on becoming a ‘vegetarian, eastern-thinking, long-haired something’
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett review: Joyous music defying categorisation
The Gloaming duo’s collaboration is dreamlike, mysterious and utterly engaging
The Gloaming: The Gloaming 3 review – Visionary exploration of traditional music-making
Group have found their groove and third album provides a focus on the darker side
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
The Gloaming announce concert series at NCH in March 2019
Dublin performances likely to showcase trad supergroup’s new album, due next spring
Fleadh Cheoil festival expected to draw 400,000 to Drogheda
Traditional music festival comes to Co Louth town for first time
‘Nobody gets rich from folk music, which is a great leveller’
Doolin Folk Festival brings Persian, Irish, Swedish and American folk sounds together
TV this weekend: Attenborough on eggs and Geldof on the ‘Late Late Show’
The Ray D’Arcy show will discuss consent in wake of Belfast trial while Aidan Gillen plays Dave Allen
The Gloaming: ‘We’ve lost cohesion in our communities’
Ahead of their sold-out concerts at the NCH, The Gloaming reflect on modern Ireland, women in trad, and how they work, rest and play
Last convict ship of Irish prisoners arrived in Perth 150 years ago
Ten-day 'Fenians, Fremantle and Freedom Festival' celebrates connection between Ireland and Perth
Martin Hayes: ‘I’m a complete guerrilla performer from the side of a mountain’
Experimentation and evolution are essential to music, says Hayes, who doesn’t miss the days of career-long contracts with labels
National Concert Hall needs to go beyond classical music
‘The building looks imposing, officious. Getting people in the door is a big thing’
Ireland Now: the music that defines today’s Irish nation
In the run-up to St Patrick's Day, Irish Times writers select the acts that represent modern Irishness
Kilkenny Arts Festival announces its 2016 programme
Stephen Rea, Loudon Wainwright III and Christian Blackshaw are among the highlights
A wealth of women at Temple Bar TradFest
The Dublin festival offers a raft of superb musicians who happen to be female. They are determined to make their mark in a male-dominated field
The Gloaming: continuing adventures of a trad fusion supergroup
The five virtuosos of The Gloaming can afford to be choosy about how, and where, they play their transcendental blend of trad, jazz, rock and classical music
What’s on: something for the weekend
Gathering Traditional Festival, Scoil Cheoil an Earraigh and St Vincent at the Olympia
The Gloaming: ‘There’s a kind of experiment happening every night’
The quintet’s music isn’t traditional, nor is it classical: it’s contemporary music that insinuates itself within the subconscious, and it’s very exciting. There is no master plan, they say, ahead of the release of their debut album
Many strings to his bow: Martin Hayes on finding inspiration
After a long musical journey, the fiddler Martin Hayes finds inspiration in everything from Bach to Arvo Pärt and Sigur Rós
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