Violinist Aoife will lead her sisters Jenny and Lisa, and father William, in the orchestra at Lismore Music Festival, says Nicki ffrench Davis.

Tune in to UTV at 8pm tonight for a new six-part series featuring Warwick Davis and his family as they travel around the UK in their trusty camper van.

Live music: FUAIM Opening Gala

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.

Life is getting easier, says Julie Feeney.

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

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Four celebs take up our challenge and remove their make-up for the cameras. They tell Arlene Harris what they see in the mirror.

There was music on both sides of my family and I always knew it was my passion.

HOW do you behave like Speaker Conolly when you smell like Mary O’Rourke? I can tell you, it’s not easy.

THE Performance Corporation is renowned for staging its theatre productions in adventurous places — in medieval dungeons, amongst sand dunes, even on a small rowboat. For its latest, most adventurous trick, it’s staging a three-day festival in Ireland’s only palace — Castletown House on the outskirts of Celbridge, Co Kildare.

Delorentos won The Meteor Choice Music Prize for album of the year 2012 for 'Little Sparks' last night.

We've teamed up with MUZU and Meteor to bring you a live stream of tonight's Meteor Choice Music Prize Awards from 7.30pm.

Tonight will see the eighth annual Choice Music Prize awarded to one of ten Irish acts, half of whom have been nominated and/or won the gong before.

The green carpet was rolled out for Colin Farrell who was the guest of honour at a star-studded Irish film event hosted by 'Star Wars' director JJ Abrams in California yesterday.

The Cast of Cheers and Two Door Cinema Club are among the acts shortlisted for one of Ireland’s most prestigious music prizes.

The nominees for this year's Meteor Choice Music Prize have been announced this evening and feature previous winners Adrian Crowley, Julie Feeney and Two Door Cinema Club.

While touring her new record, Julie Feeney has let singers in each area pick which songs they want to work on, writes Nicki ffrench Davis

The new-look Liss Ard Festival was launched yesterday outside Skibbereen in West Cork.

It is National Music Day today and special live music events are planned for towns all over the country.

In no particular order or weight ... Paul Brady, Henry Shefflin, Myrtle Allen, Saoirse Ronan, the Gulf Stream’s micro climate, Seamus Heaney, Fiona Shaw, Martin Hayes, Graham Norton, the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Rory McIlroy, Olivia O’Leary, Connemara, the Delphi and Blackwater valleys, Julie Feeney, John Hume, Lyric FM, Michael Noonan’s unflinching, selfless resolve at a moment of great personal tragedy.

FLYING 3,000 miles to drown the shamrock, blurt out the cúpla focail and watch a St Patrick’s Day parade seems a strange way for an Irish holidaymaker to spend hundreds of euro.

NORTHERN group Two Door Cinema Club were last night named winner of the Choice Music Prize for best Irish album of the year for Tourist History.

DUBLIN singers Imelda May and Cathy Davey are among the top acts battling it out for the Irish Album of the Year 2010.

IRELAND’S cultural ambassador, actor Gabriel Byrne, has launched the largest-ever promotion of Irish arts events across the United States.

NOT every organisation can boast two garden parties in the one week.

TENS of thousands of visitors are expected in Leeside over the next fortnight as the Cork Midsummer Festival gets under way with dance, music, theatre and art on show until the festivities conclude on June 27.

ONE in 10 30-year-olds will be unable to hear without the help of a hearing aid within the next decade as a direct result of listening to their MP3 players too loudly.

DUBLIN band The Script have been hotly tipped to scoop this year’s acclaimed Choice Music Prize.

Dublin band The Script have been hotly tipped to scoop this year’s acclaimed Choice Music Prize.

Some of Ireland’s hottest acts have been confirmed for The Music Show, which takes place at the RDS, all day on October 4 and 5.

The Cork Midsummer Festival launches today with more than 20,000 visitors due to attend over 55 events.

Snow Patrol and The Divine Comedy are among the 10 acts whose albums have been shortlisted for Ireland's annual Choice Prize.

Snow Patrol have been announced as 6/4 favourites to scoop the Choice Music Prize by official bookmaker to the awards Paddy Power.