Music
‘Returning to Ireland feels like closure’ - This Is The Kit leader Kate Stables on Irish gigs, Glastonbury and why she’s in the mood to make a bit of a racket
David Roy catches up with Paris-based This Is The Kit leader Kate Stables ahead of their show at Bangor’s Open House Festival
The Tumbling Paddies announce Belfast show in December at the Telegraph Building
The Irish folk band have recently featured in the Belsonic 'Farmer's Bash' event in Belfast
It’s Belfast Tradfest time
Instead of dancing the Macarena in Ibiza, on Sunday Robert McMillen will be at Tradfest’s céilí on the Titanic slipways
Hymn-writing couple Keith and Kristyn Getty on bringing their Irish Christmas show back to its roots
Jenny Lee chats to Grammy-nominated recording artists Keith and Kristyn Getty who have revolutionised the hymn genre with songs such as In Christ Alone, about bringing their popular Christmas show back home to Ireland
Armagh musician Gareth Williams is capturing the soundtrack of Irish literature - and tackling long Covid
From the melancholy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes to the crescendo of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy at the close of Joyce’s Ulysses, Armagh musician and composer Gareth Williams’s Songs from the Last Page finds new musical beginnings from the ending of stories. He chats to Jenny Lee about finding musical inspiration from literature and how he’s helping people living with long Covid
‘Hugely entertaining Kneecap movie delivers deliciously crude craic agus ceoil’
David Roy reviews the fictionalised biopic of the Belfast Irish language rappers
‘Nobody knew what jazz was’ - Belfast fiddler Conor Caldwell taking inspiration from the earliest days of jazz in Ireland
Robert chats to Conor Caldwell about the roots of his new album Oh, Listen to the Band!
‘I don’t think a lot of people my age know what’s going on around the world’ - talented Belfast teen Jarlaith Mervyn
The Belfast teen who wowed on The Voice Kids has released his debut single, Dust
Noise Annoys: exmagician back with new album, fresh tunes from Beauty Sleep and Problem Patterns, Belfast gigs for Jesus Lizard and Swami & The Bed of Nails
I'd have to say 'Best of The Beatles'
Music fans to pay tribute to ‘great champion’ Hugh Russell at Belfast City Blues Festival
The Belfast City Blues Festival takes place from June 28-30