When I told my school teacher I was going to be a professional musician, he laughed.

A mother who says her cello-playing son “will be a somebody” has convinced the co-founder of Riverdance, John McColgan, to back them.

Even small spots like Rossnagoose, on the edge of Skibbereen in West Cork by Abbeystrewery, can look out on wider global horizons than their elevated physical setting might normally allow.

Multi-talented musician Kevin Jansson, hailed as one of the finest of his generation, is the January 2018 recipient of the Cork Person of the Month award.

A nun described as the “Mother Teresa of Cork” has been honoured on her 100th birthday.

From rock ’n’ roll kids to real-life guitar heroes, dads who reignited their love of music in the corner of their local pub are set to perform the biggest gig of their lives tonight in one of Ireland’s most historic venues.

Rag’n’Bone Man is still getting used to his meteoric rise in the fame game, writes Laura Harding.

Tommy Fleming’s musical show tells of the Irish who had to change and adapt to their new home in London in the 1960s, writes Ed Power

The highest-estimated musical manuscript ever offered at auction will come up at Sotheby’s in London on November 29.

Wales: The world’s largest bouncy castle, which is said to be taller than the Great Wall of China, has been unveiled at a music festival.

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The performance was all in aid of World AIDS day.

Google is getting in on the 360 degree video craze and will be presenting all kinds of live events as though you were there in the room

MUSIC NEWS: Apple Music, the new streaming music service gets a boost today with the release of Dr Dre’s Compton: A Soundtrack exclusively on that facility and the almost traditional format, iTunes. 

Now in his 80th year, Des Keogh will finish with touring once he completes his current show on George Bernard Shaw, writes Colette Sheridan

MAURICE SEEZER is a songwriter, film music composer and founding committee member of the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival.

The Cork tenor is celebrating a quarter of a century as a professional singer, writes Dan Buckley

Presentations can often be quite daunting, yet at some point, your business will have to do one.

It’s going to be an exciting night for Wendy Dwyer, Kay Lynch and Deirdre Masterson when they appear at Musgrave Park on Saturday as support act to international superstars Il Divo. Ballincollig woman Wendy Dwyer can hardly wait. "We’ve never met them so this is going to be quite an evening."

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Rik Mayall wasn’t the only comedian to die too soon. Here are 10 more with some of their best gags, writes Dave Kenny.

THE Irish premiere of writer and composer Ailís Ní Ríain’s play, Desolate Heaven, opens at the Everyman in Cork in a co-production with the Granary Theatre on Feb 3. Directed by Tony McCleane-Fay, Desolate Heaven stars Mary McEvoy, who plays three eccentric women in their late 50s.

Neil Young reportedly told off an audience in New York after they began clapping along during his performance.

There was a flamboyant pop star, a veteran singer, a TV star, some supermodels, and one of the world’s most powerful philanthropists. Even a former secretary of state who may soon be running for president.

There was a flamboyant pop star, a veteran singer, a TV star, some supermodels, and one of the world’s most powerful philanthropists. Even a former secretary of state who may soon be running for president.

When musician Ry Cooder visited Havana in the mid-’90s, he was astonished at the vibrancy of the music scene.

American classical pianist, David Syme, has played to audiences of 10,000 at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Centre, in New York, and the Kennedy Centre, in Washington DC.

An American university student has been named Miss Universe, defeating dozens of contestants from six continents to bring the crown back to the US after a drought of more than a decade.

Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar has died at the age of 92.

SUNDAY’S opening night at the Corona Cork Film Festival will see the screening of The Great Flood, a film-music collaboration between avant garde filmmaker Bill Morrison and pioneering musician, Bill Frisell.

Ireland’s “queen of country music” has invited her fans to join her for a massive party on the Costa del Sol to celebrate her 50 years in the music industry.

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Pierce Turner’s seventh album has a guest spot by Philip Glass, but he remains a niche artist, says Joe Dermody

Internationally renowned Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa has been found dead in her apartment in the Austrian capital. She was 33.

Before her fight this morning she would have read the same Bible verses and listened to the same Christian songs on her iPod

ICONIC violinist Nigel Kennedy will join the Cork Symphony Orchestra to perform one of his favourite concertos on Friday.

EVEN before his toes touch the water at the World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, Chris Bryan will have made history.

NEW YORK’S Carnegie Hall, London’s Barbican, and the Cork Opera House are all celebrating the 75th birthday of Steve Reich, the great American composer.