Obituary: Jamshid MirFenderesky: Iranian Renaissance man, painter and classical guitarist who made Belfast his home

Art gallery he ran also became a sort of cultural and philosophical salon

Mark Knopfler on the end of Dire Straits: ‘Maybe I should have kept playing, let it get as big as Brazil’

Reluctant to coast on old glories, the guitarist is about to release One Deep River, the 10th in a series of soulful and virtuosic stand-alone albums

Fathers’ say: Here’s what I know about being a Dad...

Eight different kinds of dad on how their experience of fatherhood has changed them

Should we censor ‘homophobic’ Fairytale of New York and ‘rape anthem’ Baby It's Cold Outside?

Some hear a song about sexual coercion and say it’s inappropriate in the #MeToo era

Mark Knopfler: Down The Road Wherever review – he’s the sultan of storytelling

President pays tribute to master uilleann piper Liam O’Flynn

Michael D Higgins: musician ‘will be remembered for his performances and recordings’

Nigel Havers: On My Culture Radar

Actor Nigel Havers on why he has a soft spot for ‘Paddington 2’, Dire Straits and the classic musical ‘West Side Story’

Dan Auerbach moves from monochrome to Technicolour

Silicon Valley fixates on wax as Madame Tussauds takes vote

Next tech figure at the San Francisco museum will be selected from shortlist of 10

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Windmill Lane studios: a musical timeline from 1978 to now

Acts such as U2, Van Morrison and Kate Bush brought international fame to a small corner of Dublin’s docklands

Liam O’Connor: Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Obituary: George Jones

Peerless and hard-living country music legend

Heidi Talbot: ‘If I could work with anyone it would be Jack White.’

Heidi Talbot’s voice has taken her from Kildare to the upper echelons of folk – and gained some big fans along the way