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Music Network
What’s gone wrong at Guinness Cork Jazz Festival?
The 2025 line-up is one of the most disappointing for years. There’s no denying brisk ticket sales, but the festival needs to be more ambitious
Jazz musician Daniel Herskedal: ‘I wanted to feel those deep bass sounds. It was like a whole-body experience’
Herskedal makes a rare visit to Ireland this month, appearing with the pianist Helge Lien and the percussionist Helge Andreas Norbakken on a five-date tour
Music promoter and festival organiser Vince Power dies at 76
Waterford native established Mean Fiddler group which play key role promoting Reading and Leeds music festivals
Maxim Rysanov, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky and Dóra Kokas: Welcome Irish tour by new international string trio
Moments of astonishing beauty rubbed shoulders with helter-skelter passages with rough ensemble
Kimura, Lunny and Kelly: Folding review – startlingly beautiful
An imaginative, expertly-crafted elision of free music and ambient recording
Live and not dangerous: Ireland needs an ambitious plan to revive live music
Other countries have shown how a safety focus and innovation can get things moving
As the NoCrows fly: This week’s best trad gigs
A humdinger Music Network tour is among the traditional highlights this week
‘Othering people is something humans have done for ever’
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi are fascinated with the influence of Islamic music on the West
What is really behind the Wexford Festival Opera funding standoff?
Michael Dervan: Arts Council is in an almost unprecedented bind over grant for the event
The classical music sandwich: delicious, nutritious and necessary
Classical Music: Concerts that intersperse classics with new pieces can be revelatory
‘I love Dublin. I have everything I want here’
Where the heart is: Louise Walsh on living in Drumcondra, in the house she shares with her husband Derek Maher and their two children
The best jazz this week: BAN BAM festival highlights women artists
Vibraphonist sampled by Kanye, Mulatu Astatke, graces the Sugar Club
Writing a melody is 'like walking on a graveyard. It’s full of dead composers'
Italian classical guitarist Oscar Ghiglia pulls no punches when it comes to his students or his peers
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