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This Saturday’s (April 25) Music By The Lough is an al fresco concert featuring the talents is Ulster musicians Cara Dillon, Brian Houston and Ricky Warwick performing in the gardens of Mount Stewart, a beautiful National Trust property on the Ards Peninsula.  Tickets priced £10 (conc. £8) are available from the Lough Lively box office [...]

Paul Brady is to receive an honorary degree from the University of Ulster for services to traditional music and songwriting. The Strabane-born singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist starting performing at the age of 16 and was a member of several rhythm and blues bands before recording an album of traditional Irish music in 1976. He went [...]

Located in the heart of Co. Cavan, ClearLight Recording Studio is a fully equipped, 24-bit digital recording studio run by an engineer/producer/session musician with over 25 years experience in the business. Aimed moreso at small bands and singer/songwriters – especially those on a limited budget – who are keen to escape city hassles and focus [...]

MySpace says that users can now post more tracks to their profile. Users can upload 10 songs – almost an album’s worth of material – to their music players rather than the previous maximum of six. A spokesperson [not Tom - ed] for the social networking website said: “MySpace has always been the best place [...]

Belfast electro/trance musician DJ Damyard has signed a record deal with Argentine label Trident Music. The 15-year-old producer, remixer, and turntablist also broadcasts his own show on underground dance music net-radio station VogueFM. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/djdamyard

Iain Todd dons his scuba gear and desends into the inky darkness of The Black Box for an exclusive UlsterMusic.com interview with… The Brent Flood is a band that I am somewhat familiar with through a student radio show I used to do in Glasgow, which was dedicated solely to acoustic and folk [...]

The organisers of Forfey Festival, an annual arts festival held near Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, are now seeking submissions for this year’s event, scheduled for August 7-9, 2009. Now in its fourth year, the festival programme includes music, art and film. Write to forfeyfestival@googlemail.com to plead your case for inclusion.

The eighth City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival runs from Thursday, April 30 to Sunday, May 3. This year’s main attraction is bop-style alto sax player and Londoner Soweto Kinch who guests in a trio with Belfast jazz drummer David Lyttle the Australian Damian Evans on double bass. Other highlights include: veteran Co. [...]

Yes, yes, yes, its the summer festival… There’s a growing list of Ulster music festivals on this very website [click Festival]. But if you plan to sample what “the mainland” has to offer the festival-goer you should acquire a copy of this Ultimate Festival Guide 2009 to UK music festivals from the publishers of Music [...]

The new Duke Special album, scheduled for UK release on April 20, 2009, has been selected BBC Radio 2 “Album of the Week”. The appropriately titled I Never Thought This Day Would Come was released in Ireland by Universal Music Ireland in October last year. For this album, Duke Special (Peter Wilson) collaborated with other [...]

by Nick Balkin.  One of world’s leading schools of contemporary music, Berklee College of Music, is investing in Ireland to bring young talent across the Atlantic to its Boston campus. Ireland, though rich in musical heritage, is underrepresented at Berklee, a multicultural melting pot that includes students from more than 70 countries. The college’s means [...]

Before Dana won with All Kinds of Everything, Muriel Day was Ulster’s first ever female singer to represent Ireland in a Eurovision Song Contest back in 1969. Day began her singing career in the mid-60’s with The Dave Glover Showband, the biggest showband to come out of Northern Ireland.

Situated on the Shore Road by the north loughside, Shoreline Rehearsal Studio offers a large, comfortable room for loud-as-you-like reheasal and band equipment as follows: vocal PA system w/ monitor, guitar and bass amp, drum kit (less snare and cymbals). Two- and  three-hour sessions cost £10 per hour. Technical staff are availible to answer questions [...]

The Belfast Music Tour – tickets £8 – resumes this Friday, April 3. This takes a bus-load of music fans on a 2-hour trip around the city: from Ruby Murray to the current success stories, by way of Stiff Little Fingers, and Van Morrison. “Expect a glorious soundtrack, an amusing music quiz and the chance [...]