THE 2014 West Cork Chamber Music Festival more than maintained Bantry’s place on the music map with nine days of wonderful concerts.

Bantry’s chamber music festival has all combinations: string and brass soloists, pianists, and even a quintet,says Declan Townsend.

THE 20-year-old Franz Schubert was once asked how it was possible for him to have composed so much music at his age.

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos faced a different kind of crowd tonight as he took part in a high-brow discussion on the future of music.