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Downpatrick wunderkinds Ash are to headline the 8th annual edition of Glasgowbury, Ulster’s biggest, hippist, ”independent music” event. Some 45 other acts fill the 4-stage bills at this summer, outdoor festival. Tickets are selling like hot spuds. http://www.glasgowbury.com

Duke Special has launched into the recording of a new album for the V2 label [now divested by former owner Virgin to US investment bank Morgan Stanley and set to relaunch shortly: http://www.v2music.com - ed]. The raggamuffin-looking Peter Wilson and his rag-tag team decamp to London for the first studio sessions, before flying to Chicago [That Toddlin' Town] [...]

For many years, the Sunflower Folk Club was the only place in Belfast to hear quality folk music in a sympathetic environment. Through the late 70’s and early 80’s most of the top folk performers from Ireland and the UK played Sunflower. Many young musicians, some now household names, played their first nervous notes in [...]

The Ulster Orchestra is moving its Belfast operations from the Queen’s University of Belfast owned Elmwood Hall to the reburbished Ulster Hall in March, 2009. “It opens up whole new areas…” said principal conductor Kenneth Montgomery, adding ”…working ever more closely with Belfast City Council to provide access to the Hall, developing Schools Concerts and lunchtime [...]

Edel Close reports: Formed only this year, the Kodaly Society of Northern Ireland (KSONI) plans to host its inaugural Kodaly Summer Course this July. Set up by local music teacher and soprano, Anne McCambridge, the course aims to help students solve the mysteries of music. Zoltan Kodaly was a Hungarian composer and educator who developed [...]

Burner of black suits Juliet Turner is back on the scene like a pyro machine with a brand new single and album. The track Trickster is taken from Turrner’s fourth studio album, People Have Names, released on June 6, 2008 [and available for download via UlsterMusic.com-affilated on-line music store The Gramophone Shop - ed]. A tour [...]