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Jeff Ballard has played with many of the all-time greats, but is happy to bring his own band to Ireland, writes Ed Power.

In advance of the Crosstown Drift event, Eoghan O’Sullivan asked some of the participating authors about what makes Cork a special place for them.

More than 55,000 people are expected to attend a 10-day festival in Cork which will feature theatre, dance, music and family-friendly events at several venues around the city.

Today is International Jazz Day. To mark the occasion, Jonathan deBurca Butler asked some well-known fans and musicians about their love of the genre.

Travellers in Munster are more likely to be affected by suicide, experience isolation and mental health difficulties, and be out of work compared to the national average.

Some of the movers and shakers of Cork’s arts and entertainment scene tell Des O’Driscoll about their highlights of 2017, and what they are looking forward to for 2018.

Cork-based Leanne McDonagh has brought an artist’s eye to her photographs of Travellers and their accommodation, writes Marjorie Brennan.

A new musical tells the true story of the infamous kidnapper Sir Henry, writes Colette Sheridan.

IT’S not nostalgia. The Yellow River, a collaborative project between poet Gerard Smyth and painter Seán McSweeney, delves deep into the pair’s memories of Co Meath, but Smyth, selecting words with the care to be expected of a poet, balks slightly at “nostalgic”.

Aoife Burke is a cellist from Cork, and currently holds a residency at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork, as part of which she curates the summer lunchtime concert series and the Spotlight chamber music series. 

Fancy a festival or a day out that won’t break the bank? We’ve got 50 of them. Ciara McDonnell reports

The former home of composer John Gibson hits all the right notes, says Tommy Barker

Cork city-centre music store Plugd and its sister cafe Gulpd are to cease operations in the Triskel Arts Centre at the end of the month.

The final school term is in sight and the sun is almost shining. Shake off the harried routine of school runs and use the final week of the Easter hols to schedule some fun activities that memories are made of, says Ciara McDonnell.

Last Monday evening, Cork City councillors met to vote on the city’s 2017 budget. 

Four days, 1,200 musicians, and 40,000 punters later, the 34th Guinness Cork Jazz festival will tonight come to a close following a weekend of beats, blues, and boater hats.

An American composer’s Cork connections inspired him to write an almost forgotten work dedicated to Terence MacSwiney. The piece is about to gets its first airing in the city, writes Marjorie Brennan

A pioneer of puppetry and visual street theatre in Ireland will be remembered as puppets take over Cork next month.

JOHN Metcalfe’s album, The Appearance of Colour, is just his fourth solo release in 30 years. But don’t let that fool you, writes Alan O’Riordan. 

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Bryce Dessner of The National has a long-held affinity with Cork. It’s part of the reason he’s organising an impressive music fest in the city, writes Ed Power

Are you looking for things to do during the week? We have a few suggestions that might suit you.

Irish sports stars have lined out in favour of the marriage equality yes campaign, saying a change in the law will tell young fans: “It’s OK to be who you are.”

Here’s a quick look at the latest music, gig, film and entertainment news.

The humour in Gerry Murphy’s poems was a reaction to solemnity, writes Colette Sheridan.

Record sales are resurgent, but will the format ever again be more than a niche market, asks Eoghan O’Sullivan

Plastik Festival, a new international festival of artists’ moving image is due to take place over three weekends in venues in Cork and Dublin during February.

THOUGH a legend in folk music circles on both sides of the Atlantic, singer Maura O’Connell was “thrilled” to accept a minor role in the Martin Scorsese’s award-winning Gangs of New York in 2002.

 Esther N McCarthy picks tactile fabrics, tasty tones for autumn and some great arts and crafts    

Esther N McCarthy digs some retro vibes, hails the love affair between form and function and gives a shout out to our feathered friends.

For the former front man with Granny’s Intentions, the most popular ‘beat group’ in Ireland in the 1960s, Johnny Duhan’s latest album, Winter, reflects something of a rite of passage.

Theatre is thriving in Cork: SHOW is a festival of original work and continues at the Triskel Arts Centre until Sunday.

Versatility in the performing arts is essential in the current economic climate, says Chris Ahern, head of the performing arts department at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa (CSN) in Cork.

“There are many different reasons why a woman would need to have a pregnancy terminated,” says Claire. “I never thought I would be a woman to have a reason to do so, but I was.”

IN Exit Strategy, a new work created locally and performed in the Cork Arts Theatre for Cork Midsummer Festival, two semi-fictional characters riff on Cork’s cultural life.

Asta Philpot admits having been with a prostitute, and now campaigns for sex rights for the disabled, writes Deirdre Reynolds