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Irish acts including The Mary Wallopers, Florence Road and Madra Salach have joined the line-up too

Plus: Which ‘ville’ is the birthplace of US country singer Luke Combs?

Celebrated musician won a Grammy and an Emmy during hugely successful career

The musician’s death has come as a shock to all who followed her and her band, Clannad

The New York songwriter, who has just written the memoir Almost Grown, on his recovery and taking inspiration from Shane MacGowan’s resilience

The singer was still at school when the BBC discovered her. By 2024 she was opening for Taylor Swift – yet she still doesn’t have the music industry all figured out, she says

Foo Fighters frontman on tracking phases of his life through albums, reflecting on the band’s early days and what their future might look like

Bronx native faced accusations of child sexual abuse

Plus: What fruit is the title of Yoko Ono’s 1964 ‘artist’s book’?

Wireless music festival, which Kanye West was due to headline, has now been cancelled

Although she adores classical and has even played Mozart’s concert violin, for the Austrian musician the world of contemporary music is now ‘totally’ where she belongs

The Happy Mondays frontman on living in Ireland, the band’s drug-fuelled Madchester years, and being back on tour

Dermot Kennedy is one of Ireland's most successful music artists, with hundreds of millions of streams on Spotify and two sold-out gigs coming up at the Aviva, but naturally shy, and 'a bit of a loner' at heart, he finds touring hard. His new album is a declaration of allegiance to his home in Rathcoole in Dublin

The pianists Maki Namekawa and Thomas Enhco are re-creating the jazz star’s fabled improvisation at the National Concert Hall in Dublin

The band offer us a record about friendship, faith, art, meaning and, appropriately for Easter, death and the possibility of rebirth