LATEST: Snow Patrol has just announced a very special tour of Ireland in December 2009. The 5-date run entitled “Snow Patrol Reworked” includes two nights at the [doomed domed - ed] Waterfront Hall, Belfast and is described as “a live celebration featuring highlights from the bands 15 year career to date, specially reworked and reinvented“. [...]
August 23, 2009
The Divine Comedy, alias (a solo) Neil Hannon, closed this year’s Belfast Féile an Phobail with a concert on Sunday, August 9 supported by The Aventures. Playing to a full house at The Andersonstown Leisure Centre, a behatted Hannon, entertained fans with banter and tunes played on acoustic guitar and [a poorly miked - ed [...]
August 23, 2009
Rhoda Barfoot is a classicly trained folk violinist from Ulster. She studied music at The Queen’s University of Belfast – winning The Hamilton Harty Scholarship – and trained in classical violin with teachers in Ireland, Switzerland, and Holland. Since 2007, Barfoot has been working with contemporary Christian musicians Keith and Kristyn Getty [now based in [...]
August 23, 2009
Veteran radio talent Desmond Carrington devoted the whole of his regular BBC Radio 2 show to the music of Ulster-born hit songwriter Jimmy Kennedy. The 60-minute edition of Desmond Carrington with The Music Goes Round was transmitted on the UK’s most popular radio station on Tuesday, August 18 but is available to “Listen Again” on [...]
August 23, 2009
Dunfanaghy is a small harbour village in the Sheephaven Bay area of Co. Donegal in the northwest of Ulster. Located between the hills and the Atlantic Ocean, Dunfanaghy boasts a Blue Flag beach, the spectacular Hornhead cliffs and much more… For example, the 2009 Dunfanaghy Jazz and Blues Festival taking place from Friday-Sunday, September 11-13. [...]
August 23, 2009
Nua, Irish for “new”, is the name of a recently formed contemporary folk band from Co. Armagh. The band’s three members – Stevie Darby, Ona Darby, and Mark Haddock – have come together to write and produce their first (self-titled) debut album.
August 7, 2009
Ulster Orchestra premiers “Weather Report”, a piece by Belfast composer Bill Campbell, at tonight’s BBC Summer Invitation concert Radio 3 broadcast from The Ulster Hall. Campbell studied music at University of Ulster, Jordanstown and won the Cornelius Cardew Prize for composition in 1992. He has received commissions from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and [...]
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