Dancer Michael Keegan-Dolan: ‘I do everything slightly backwards’
Michael Keegan-Dolan has created 1975/Naoi Déag Seachtó Cúig around The Bothy Band’s astonishing first album, which has stuck in his mind since he was six
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Nobodaddy: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s new show delves into life, death, connection and loss in surprising, unpredictable ways
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Sam Amidon’s music serves as a lifeline through the changing tableaux of a sometimes hard-to-grasp production
Motion and emotion: Watching as Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Nobodaddy takes shape at Teach Damhsa
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The acclaimed choreographer has teamed up with the musican Sam Amidon to create the festival’s opening show
Sounds Like Freedom: When music and civil rights join forces
Niall Vallely’s new project celebrates historic protests in both the US and Northern Ireland
National Concert Hall launches bumper programme for 2019-20
Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-up
‘Music is made in communities’: Aaron and Bryce Dessner’s new vision
The National’s guitarists are part of People, a community of musicians creating new spaces and platforms
This Album Changed My Life: Tommy Peoples & Paul Brady – The High Part of the Road (1976)
Sam Amidon on a folk inspiration that changed his musicianship
Irish adaption of ‘Swan Lake’ among highlights of Clonmel Junction Festival
Music and theatre lovers well catered for with eclectic mix at popular Tipperary event
Literary listings: Merriman Summer School, Yeats in Dublin, and Rebellion at Stinging Fly
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Video: Cillian Murphy and Bryce Dessner on Cork’s newest arts festival
Sounds from a Safe Harbour, which Dessner has curated, takes place in September
Bryce Dessner harnesses Cork’s creative potential
The National guitarist is excited about curating the first Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival, which will be ‘like throwing a party for your friends’
The Gloaming: continuing adventures of a trad fusion supergroup
The five virtuosos of The Gloaming can afford to be choosy about how, and where, they play their transcendental blend of trad, jazz, rock and classical music
Artists and audience asked to mix it up a little for overhauled Kilkenny festival
The Gloaming one of many artists in residence in Marble City
Sam Amidon – an old folk head on young shoulders
Vermont native Sam Amidon explains how he went from office typist to folk revivalist - and how he loves to jam with Martin Hayes on the Lower East Side
Tune up for a spectacular season of music
From rock legends Pearl Jam and Queens of the Stone Age to young guns Haim and Kodaline, the music calander is brimful of exciting happenings over the next few months. Here are 20 of the best upcoming shows and releases
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