John Dowland
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Richard Thomas and Sharon Carty: This week’s best classical concerts
- Music
- April 27, 2019, 05:00
Sunday, April 28th Sharon Carty, Siobhán Armstrong Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin hughlane.ie Mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty is one of those Irish singers wh(...)

Good pairings: The best classical music and opera concerts this week
- Music
- April 20, 2019, 05:00
Friday 26th Tara Erraught, John O’Conor NCH, Dublin It’s a first-time collaboration between Tara Erraught, Ireland’s most successful mezzo-soprano, a(...)

Sting: ‘When I get angry I’m a Geordie. It’s very effective’
- Music
- December 9, 2017, 06:00
When you say, “I’m here to interview Sting”, nobody says, “Sting who?” There’s one Sting, like there’s one Bono, one Cher and one Bosco. The former P(...)

Sean Shibe –Dreams & Fancies review: An alluring, outgoing side on show
- Music
- August 23, 2017, 17:01
Scottish/Japanese guitarist Sean Shibe’s first solo CD celebrates works commissioned from English composers by the great Julian Bream. Shibe is a char(...)

Wishful Beginnings review: The end of the world and they know it
- Stage
- October 7, 2016, 11:00
Project Arts Centre *** It begins with a series of questions – trivial, personal or simply unanswerable – posed over the heads of the audience. Fro(...)

Phantasm, Elizabeth Kenny - Dowland: Lachrimae album review: a gripping performance
- Music
- July 6, 2016, 17:30
John Dowland’s 1604 Lachrimae is described on its title page as “Seven Tears figured in seven passionate pavans, with diverse other pavans, galliards (...)

Ergodos Musicians: Songs
- Music
- August 15, 2014, 00:00
In the end, it all comes back to songs. Though we may turn an ambitious ear to a Beethoven symphony, a Seamus Ennis reel or a late Coltrane improvisat(...)

Benjamin Dwyer: Scenes from Crow
- Music
- March 14, 2014, 00:00
Benjamin Dwyer seems to have encountered Ted Hughes’s From the Life and Songs of the Crow much as a helpless coastal dweller might have encountere(...)

Books in the bath, dancing from Dusk till dawn and other Kilkenny attractions
- Culture
- August 12, 2013, 18:19
It began at St Canice’s Cathedral in August 1974. In those days the festival known as “Kilkenny Arts Week” was made up of mostly classical music, with(...)