Sean Macerlaine

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A festival highlight: Martha Wainwright plays Tradfest
Tradfest 2018 puts female artists centre stage
  • Music
  • January 23, 2018, 05:00

Taking as its starting point an all-embracing notion of traditional music, Temple Bar Tradfest has captured the zeitgeist this year, whether by accide(...)

This Is How We Fly - Foreign Fields review: sounds from an otherwordly universe
  • Music
  • September 13, 2017, 15:30

Shifting and sliding time signatures, elusive wisps of sound and an irrepressible appetite for mining the unknown all seem to be at the heart of This (...)

Select: food and fuel in a dirty old town

Two quintessentially Dublin-centric festivals collide over the coming week. The Dublin One City, One Book festival will this year use film, music a(...)

Paul Hillier: ‘Young people are much more open to contemporary serious music. They won’t have this existential crisis that they’re a concert of new choral music’
Paul Hillier’s ‘weird and wonderful’ blueprint for Chamber Choir Ireland

When Paul Hillier became artistic director of the National Chamber Choir six years ago, he probably had no accurate idea of what his future wou(...)

This Is How We Fly
  • Music
  • October 18, 2013, 00:00

Elusive and mercurial, This Is How We Fly draw from a heady mix of Irish, American and Swedish folk and jazz influences. They boldly knit percussive d(...)