Glengarriff will reverberate to the melody of the uilleann pipes for four days this week as the whole town becomes a trad music venue for the annual Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipes and Trad Festival.

Mick O’Dea is one of Ireland’s finest portrait painters, and he spent three seasons as the artist-in-residence at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, creating portraits of various participants. He tells Richard Fitzpatrick about those sessions, the fruits of which feature in a new exhibition

As The Gloaming begin their seven-night sold out run at the NCH, they tell Ellie O’Byrne about the logistics of getting such a widely-dispersed group together

Martin Hayes has travelled from the céilí bands of his native Clare, via The Gloaming, to a new quartet with American musicians, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news from the world of entertainment.

Consideration of the arts takes up 600 words in a 160-page programme for government, writes Gerard Howlin

The centenary of the Easter Rising has given us an abundance of commemorative

Mel Mercier tells Eoghan O’Sullivan about plans for the UCC-based Cork Gamelan Ensemble to release their debut album

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After massive success with The Gloaming, Iarla Ó Lionáird returns to Cork for a new project with the Vanbrugh Quartet, writes Ed Power

JOHN P Quinlan is from Macroom, and founded the Vangard Gallery in Cork in 1991. He is in the midst of a nine-month stint as guest curator at Triskel in Cork.

The Gloaming may not be a conventional band, but they could win the Choice Music Prize, writes Ed Power

If you have the courage to make the leap, experimentation can bring excitement to your life, Martin Hayes tells Ed Power in advance of tbe Masters of Tradition festival

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As Philip King takes to the stage with Scullion at a musical celebration hosted by UCC, he tells Ed Power how his studies there helped shape him as an artist

For the past five years, University College Cork’s FUAIM concerts and seminars have celebrated the diversity of Irish music and its interconnectedness with further flung forms.

UCC’s FUAIM festival ranges from Indonesian gamelan to Irish trad, says Ed Power.

St Patrick’s Day parades bring out the best in our towns and cities,Richard Fitzpatrick reports.

IT WAS a strange way to start a band. “In 2011 we announced we were going be a group,” says the Gloaming’s Iarla Ó Lionáird.

To keep an arts festival going in some of the toughest economic conditions this country has ever witnessed is an achievement in itself.

MUSIC NEWS: Back in April, Frank ‘Poncho’ Sampedro told Rolling Stone magazine that his band Crazy Horse were too old to tour with Neil Young.

NOW in its 11th year, the Masters of Tradition Festival in Bantry, Co Cork (August 14-18) has turned out to be exactly the kind of festival that its artistic director, Martin Hayes, envisaged.

MUSIC NEWS: Cillian Murphy has made his directorial debut with a music video for Manchester band Money.

MUSIC NEWS: She’s conquered Britain, America and the world, now Adele is following in the footsteps of music legends Shirley Bassey, Paul McCartney, Tina Turner and, er, Sheena Easton.

MUSIC NEWS: Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody, below, is one of the busiest men in show business at the moment.

This weekend’s Cave concerts are performed 88 steps down in a chamber beneath the earth, says Alan O’Riordan

MUSIC NEWS: If you’re considering getting an emo haircut for summer, this report from Down Under may make you think again.

THE enigmatic Dublin-born fiddle player Caomhín Ó Raghallaigh has stirred the traditional scene, releasing five albums in 10 years, four of them collaborations with leading lights in Irish music.

UPWARDS of 50,000 people are expected to flock to Ballybunion, Co Kerry, for the week-long World Fleadh, which got underway yesterday.