Artistic programming policy
Read Music Network's Artistic Programming Policy 2014 -17 here.
Tours
Participation in the Music Network Touring Programme is by invitation only.
How to work with us
Participation in the Music Network Touring Programme is by invitation only. Currently the Music Network touring schedule is full throughout the next 3 – 4 seasons so there are no tour slots available for 18 – 24 months. Should you wish to be considered for a Music Network tour beyond that time please send an information pack including biographies, reviews, sound/video recordings, photographs, fee expectation, and programmes/performance ideas to The Programmes Manager, Music Network, National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland, or email here.
Curated tours
Music Network traditional tours are specially curated to enrich the offering to our partner promoters and audiences.
Each year, we curate three tours of traditional music that feature musicians of renown who have not worked together before. Over the years, some very special collaborations have taken place and very often tour line-ups curated by Music Network continue to work together beyond the life of the tour, some recent examples include:
- Seamus Begley, Chris Stout and Catriona McKay released a wonderful album ‘Begley McKay Stout’ that captures the tunes and songs they performed on their 9-date tour with us
- Kathleen MacInnes, Dermot Byrne, Brian Finnegan and Mike Vass performed at Celtic Connections 2016
- Maura O'Connell and Karan Casey embarked on a US tour together in Autumn 2016.
- A newly-commissioned work, 'Edges of Light', a collaboration between Colin Dunne, Tola Custy, Maeve Gilchrist and David Power was performed following their tour at the Irish Arts Centre, New York in June 2017, and at Dungarvan Summer Music Festival and Kilkenny Arts Festival in August 2017.
Tour archive
See the artists that we have programmed from 1986 - 2013 here, and for more recent concerts and tours please visit the Music Network Concerts Archive.
International
Since 2000, Music Network has arranged numerous overseas performances by Irish Traditional, Classical and Jazz musicians, with support from (among others) the Cultural Relations Committee, Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and more recently, Culture Ireland. Opportunities we have realised on behalf of Irish musicians can be viewed here.