Martin Hayes: ‘I’m a complete guerrilla performer from the side of a mountain’

Experimentation and evolution are essential to music, says Hayes, who doesn’t miss the days of career-long contracts with labels

Martin Hayes Quartet review: Beguiling new angles on the tradition

National Concert Hall needs to go beyond classical music

‘The building looks imposing, officious. Getting people in the door is a big thing’

Kilkenny Arts Festival announces its 2016 programme

Stephen Rea, Loudon Wainwright III and Christian Blackshaw are among the highlights

The Gloaming: continuing adventures of a trad fusion supergroup

The five virtuosos of The Gloaming can afford to be choosy about how, and where, they play their transcendental blend of trad, jazz, rock and classical music

Artists and audience asked to mix it up a little for overhauled Kilkenny festival

The Gloaming one of many artists in residence in Marble City