Coming just over a year after the album Quare Groove Vol. 1 pulled back the lid on a hidden world of Irish funk music of the 1970s and ’80s, comes another compilation album from the same stable that puts the spotlight on the early jazz fusion and folk scene.

Millstreet hosted the Eurovision 20 years ago, in an equestrian centre, for free. The town relished it, says Richard Fitzpatrick

The RTÉ concert orchestra yesterday provided the musical accompaniment to the funeral Mass for its former conductor, Noel Kelehan.

Noel Kelehan, the former musical director at RTÉ and conductor of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, has died at the age of 76.

IT’S said jazz came to America in chains as the native rhythms of imported slaves but it breaks free from all shackles of convention and tradition in this year’s Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.