The Sep-Oct '06 issue of JMI, Ireland’s bi-monthly music magazine, is now available.
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The Art of American Dissent – Singing Out on US Foreign Policy
Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Patti Smith and the Flaming Lips – ‘there has always been another America’ of music and ideas, argues award-winning novelist Desmond Traynor
Chorus for Change
Composer Michael McGlynn, Director of the world-renowned Anuna, asks if Ireland has ‘the vision to develop a choral community that will be the envy of the world?’
Jazz: O’Leary the Levitator
Barra O Seaghdha listens to some recent work by Cork jazz guitarist Mark O’Leary
Traditional Music: Kila Twinning
Adrian Scahill reviews two new CDs from the Kila stable, Kila & Oki and
uilleann piper Eoin Dillon’s The Third Twin
New Work Notes: Looking for the El Dorado of New Music
John McLachlan visits the new music scenes of South Africa and Stuttgart
and asks are we ‘actually doing anything interesting or provocative in this
country?’
Reabhloid Ealaine na Gaillimhe
July ’06 saw the organising of an alternative Galway arts festival which
went head to head with the Galway Arts Festival to draw attention to local
artistic talent. Both festivals were hailed as great successes. However,
the intention was never to create a ‘Fringe’, but rather to change the main festival. Has it succeeded? Breandan O hEaghra teases out the issues.
A Tribute to Micheal O Domhnaill (1951–2006)
Robert McMillen remembers the former guitarist and singer with the Bothy Band who died this year.
Live Reviews
– Iarla O Lionaird, Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill @ the National Concert
Hall
– Debashish Bhattacharya (22-string guitar) @ Farmleigh
Recent Publications
Detailed listings of recently issued CDs, DVDs, books, periodicals &
scores, provided by the Irish Traditional Music Archive and the
Contemporary Music Centre
September–October Music Guide
Comprehensive two-month guide to contemporary/classical, jazz/improvised/world, and Irish traditional
concerts, sessions & festivals
Images from the Archive
– in association with the Irish Traditional Music Archive
The group Seachtar, which within a year or two and with some change of
personnel would become internationally famous as the Bothy Band, in a 1974 publicity shot by Dublin photographer Robert Dawson on Mespil Road, Dublin, in the apartment of their American sponsor Diane Hamilton nee Guggenheim: Tony Mac Mahon, Clare, accordion; Paddy Keenan, Dublin, uilleann pipes; Matt Molloy, Roscommon, flute; Triona Ni Dhomhnaill, Meath/Donegal, vocals, electric clavichord; Paddy Glackin, Dublin, fiddle; Donal Lunny, Kildare, bouzouki; Micheal O Domhnaill, Meath/Donegal, vocals, guitar
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