September/October 2008
- Editorial: 800,000 Children
Improvements in music education are down to political will
- Stargazers
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly gives an insider’s view of the Irish Composers’ Collective.
- Q&A: Cora Venus Lunny
JMI talks to violinist and violist Cora Venus Lunny.
- The Small Back Room
Ciaran Carson on the ideal space for playing traditional music.
- Togetherness
Kevin Stevens meets two new collectives in the Irish jazz scene.
- Northword: Here Be Monsters
Peter Rosser looks at a new model for music production hatching in Northern Ireland.
- Tochas Usher Nó Ceol Araibíse Mhuintir Elsafty?
Is Irish-language song in a western pop music ghetto? It needs a much broader musical context, writes Breandán Ó hEaghra
- All Collisions End in Static: the Music of Linda Buckley
Bob Gilmore interviews leading young composer Linda Buckley who divides her time between Berlin and Dublin.
- Short-circuiting the Soloist?
In a new series of columns, Toner Quinn looks at contemporary issues in traditional music.
- New Work Notes: Critical Mass
John McLachlan asks if we have what it takes to develop a thriving contemporary music scene.
- Living Up to the Song
Barra Ó Séaghdha reviews Faking it, a recent book which explores the divide between artist and performance.
- CD REVIEWS
Métier / Bill Whelan / Frank Cassidy / Ian Wilson / Cíarán Ó Maonaigh / Yurodny / Armagh Pipers Club
- LIVE REVIEWS
The Frost is All Over / Analog / National Chamber Choir / Benjamin Dwyer / Spatial Music Collective / Young Composers' Collective
- Notes
Islands Tour; The Reel Deal; The West Awake; Free State IV; Globalising Irish Music – Podcast by Bill Whelan; DEAF; Creative Spaces; Béal Tuinne and Conal Ó Gráda at the Cork Folk Festival; Eliza Carthy in Enniskillen; Seán Ó Riada Memorial Statue; Music 21; Win a Subscription to Naxos Music Library; Julie Fowlis and Muireann Nic Amhlaoimh – New CD; Sligo New Music; Brazil Now!; 30th Cork Jazz Festival, 24 -27 October; David Flynn / Kerry Chamber Music Festival / Trad Connections; Arts Council Funding; Order and disOrder; Concorde, Hyun Si and Carter; Dreamers of Pearl; Apex; Write for JMI