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The return of the Bothy Band

Via The Journal Of Music: TG4 has broadcast a new documentary film on the reformed 1970s group The B...

The legendary Mark Knopfler talks music with Marty

Mark Knopfler just released his tenth solo studio album, entitled One Deep River, and he joined Mart...

Beta's Ones To Watch: Sadhbh Keane, Nixer & Rebitual

This week's Ones to Watch: Sadhbh Keane Sadhbh Keane is a Dublin-based singer-songwriter - at the ag...

New Music Dublin: Composer Ann Cleare's Mesolithic masterwork

For this year's New Music Dublin Festival at the National Concert Hall, Crash Ensemble perform the w...

Something For The Weekend: Sharon Shannon's cultural picks

In June 1989, Sharon Shannon was rehearsing and demoing tracks for her first album, when she was whi...

Altered state: composer Bekah Simms crashes into New Music Dublin

This year's New Music Dublin programme features the world premiere of Cryptid by Bekah Simms, writte...

The magic number: Dan Hegarty on great 3rd albums from Irish acts

With the release of Pillow Queens' third album Name Your Sorrow, 2fm’s Dan Hegarty looks at album nu...

Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department and the art of melodrama

Taylor Swift album drops have become cultural moments – whether or not you are a fan of her music, w...

An Taobh Tuathail @ 25 - Cian Ó Cíobháin's ultimate playlist

The seminal music show, described by Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animala as "one of the most radical r...

Something For The Weekend: Patrick Wolf's cultural picks

Patrick Wolf is a UK singer-songwriter who mixes electronics and samples with a wide range of instru...

Beta's Ones To Watch: Celine, Fused & Ellen O' Meara

This week's Ones to Watch: Celine One of the newest voices in Irish hip-hop, she is one not to be ig...

Mystery Train - your weekly selection of tracks from John Kelly

Mystery Train host John Kelly Complete Mystery Train playlists - all the right notes in the right or...

Jazz vocalist Judi Jackson talks to RTÉ Arena

Winner of vocalist of the year at the Jazz FM awards in 2020, Judi Jackson grew up in Virginia, play...

Berginald Rash on making classical music modern at the NCH

The National Concert Hall's new concert series From Antiquity to Modernity takes audiences on a jour...

Traveller singer Thomas McCarthy returns in new RTÉ documentary

Thomas McCarthy is one of Ireland's best known traditional Traveller singers. As we left Thomas, he ...