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Brian Deady: Yellow Creek review – True grit
An on-the-hoof recording in Memphis pays off for the forthright Irish songwriter
Brian Deady: ‘My job is not to be famous, it’s to make stuff’
The Cork native is continuing to plot world domination from his Spanish cave house
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Outdoor concerts, silent discos and best of New Year’s Eve TV to help you ring in 2020
Wake the dead: Cork Guinness Jazz Festival kicks off
40,000 jazz fans to attend as New Orleans-style funeral procession hits town
It Takes A Village to put on a festival in Trabolgan
How Music Works: Joe Kelly is organising a festival in Trabolgan holiday village in Co Cork in April, aimed at veteran festivalgoers who are fed up of mud, tents and portaloos
‘The Prodigy helped me put my family life back together’
This Album Changed My Life: Musician Brian Deady on The Prodigy’s Experience (1992)
Creative retreats, opera and TV holidays to soothe your soul
Check-In: the art behind violin production in Paris and Puccini with Marty Whelan
Al Porter launches himself into a thrilling New Year
Dublin comedian proves 2016 wasn’t bad for everyone, finishing year on a career high
Radio silence: Stations which play the least Irish music revealed
Gavin James and Walking on Cars top the most-played Irish lists on Irish radio stations
About 1,000 musicians to perform at Cork Jazz Festival
Rodrigo Y Gabriela and Bell X1 join acclaimed jazz perfomers on October line-up
Electric Picnic: main stage times plus Rankin's wood, Other Voices and Body & Soul
Here’s the first stage times for the Main, Rankin’s Wood, Other Voices and Body and Soul stages. We'll have more for you tomorrow
Elvis Costello, Enda Walsh and Hughie O’Donoghue announced for Galway
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