Easkey’s modestly monikered music act Barely Worth Listening To has released his latest single to an unsuspecting public. Aka Steven Conway, Spin the Knight’s Cut…

Seamus Ruttledge is a prolific west of Ireland songwriter, singer and social activist who describes his new single We Don’t Want Your War as an…

Ballina’s David Lynn will be among four top class soloists who will join St. Muredach’s Cathedral Choir and Cór Mhaigh Eo under the direction of…

A new work by the Irish composer Michael Doherty will feature alongside concert reliables from Schumann and Shostakovich when The Gealán Quartet performs in Ballina…

Healyfest, the free live music festival in Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, takes place over the coming public holiday weekend. Beginning on 4th August, one of the…

Demand for Billow Wood in Germany sees the Ballina trad-folk-pop group make a return trip to that country just a few months after a very…

While we wait for her upcoming album, Tracy Bruen returns with Silence Crawls, the second single from that imminent long player. Her latest single is…

100 years after the death of Michael Collins I recall how his arch-enemy, Eamon de Valera, once personally admitted to me that “Michael Collins was…

New Irish indie label Voices of the Sea will launch Rory Gallagher’s forthcoming album Centre Falls Apart in March. A former member of classy Donegal…

Thirty years ago – towards the end of 1990, to be precise – Mayo musician, piano teacher, studio owner and music writer David Dwane recorded…