Music Network News & Reviews
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08 February 2010
Music Network and Musique et Santé in Music in Healthcare Settings Training Programme
Music Network, in partnership with Musique et Santé, Europe’s only dedicated Music & Health organisation, is conducting a Music in Healthcare Settings Training Programme for musicians at St. James’s Hospital Dublin from 8 – 12 February, 2010.
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04 February 2010
Fidil’s Aidan O’Donnell, awarded TG4 Gradam Ceoil Young Musician of the Year
At the recent TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards, Fidil's Aidan O'Donnell was awarded Young Musician of the Year.
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02 February 2010
CALLING ALL YOUNG JAZZ GROUPS - MUSIC NETWORK INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR YOUNG MUSICWIDE AWARD 2010
Music Network invites aspiring young jazz musicians to apply for the YOUNG MUSICWIDE AWARD 2010. Young Musicwide is a unique professional development scheme designed to assist a selected group of Ireland’s brightest young musicians at the beginning of their professional career. The award this year is open to jazz ensembles of any instrumentation up to a maximum of five people. The closing date for completed applications is Monday 5th July 2010.
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11 January 2010
Music Network presents PORTICO QUARTET
Music Network presents the weird but wonderful sound of Mercury-prize nominated UK Portico Quartet on a national tour from Tuesday 16th – Thursday 25th February. Showcasing tunes from their recent album Isla which has been described by MOJO as a brew of, “… Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy …a chiming cavernous sound-world that is both exotic and hypnotic”.
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15 December 2009
€136,000 in funding awarded through the Music Capital Scheme
The Arts Council in association with Music Network today announced the names of sixteen individuals and organisations awarded funding through the Music Capital Scheme, an initiative designed to provide support for the purchase of musical instruments.
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07 December 2009
Fidil feature article - The Irish Times
The Donegal fiddle style – fiery pacing, assertive bowing patterns and a fondness for ‘playing the octave’ – is now in the hands of a young trio called Fidil, writes Siobhán Long
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03 December 2009
Music Network Presents The Homecoming
Fans of traditional Irish music will relish January’s tour, The Homecoming, which brings together four of Ireland’s finest musical émigrés: Susan McKeown, Paddy O’Brien, Aidan Brennan and Cillian Vallely.
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03 December 2009
Fidil CD Review - The Irish Times
FIDIL is this week's CD choice reviewed in The Irish Times
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25 November 2009
Music Network Announces 2010 Spring Season
Music Network today announced a host of music luminaries for its 2010 Spring Season spanning a range of music performance styles from traditional Irish, jazz, chamber, classical and baroque.
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25 November 2009
Music Network Seeks Project Director for a Scheme for a National Music Education Programme
The project director of a scheme for a national music education programme is a new position, created to establish and run a major programme of music education in Ireland.
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