The Ticket’s top roots, jazz, trad and classical albums of 2021

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss; Matthew Halpin; John Francis Flynn; Haydn/Brahms

Kimura, Lunny and Kelly: Folding review – startlingly beautiful

An imaginative, expertly-crafted elision of free music and ambient recording

The best jazz concerts to go to in Ireland this week

Music with pizza in the Liberties, a festival in the Donegal Gaeltacht

The best jazz events this week

Dirty Jazz Club returns to Dublin while the Guilfoyle/Nielsen Trio plays in Derry bar

Irish National Opera’s debut show: the best classical and opera this week

Music Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic music

The best jazz this week: BAN BAM festival highlights women artists

Vibraphonist sampled by Kanye, Mulatu Astatke, graces the Sugar Club

The best jazz gigs to see this week

Cormac Larkin’s recommendations

The best jazz gigs to see this week

Live jazz highlights from across the country

Tommy Halferty & Izumi Kimura – Maelstrom review: engrossing chamber music

Around the Georgian houses

Nic an Ríogh’s aim in these events is to encourage audiences to engage not only with music but also with architecture

Going Out: Hard Working Class Heroes, Galway Jazz Festival and more

The best of what’s on around the country this weekend, including Stars of the Lid , Eve Risser and Phil Hartnoll

Lauren Kinsella: 'Improvisation is the key to life'

Shrieks, yelps and clicks are part of the Irish woman’s repertoire of improvisation

Going Out: The best of what’s on this weekend

A round-up of the best nights out across the country, inicluding gigs by Little Green Cars, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Mmoths and more

Monopoly shake-up? John Wilson muscles in on NSO’s patch

It is likely to be to everyone’s benefit if the two RTÉ orchestras are allowed to compete on the same terrain