2015: How was it for you? - Alan O’Riordan

Our regular arts writers select their highlights of the year. Today, it’s Alan O’Riordan’s turn.

What were the three best events you were at during the year?

1. Christian Scott at the Sugar Club in Dublin. Scott, a New Orleans trumpeter in his 30s, has gathered together a group of extraordinary and extraordinarily young musicians from across the US. Coming days after the Paris attacks, which centred on my old neighbourhood in the city, the feeling of being in a club with such youth and beauty both on the stage and off, it was a poignant reminder that ugliness does not always win.