Neil Martin
Composer Neil Martin on Belfast Mela project and musical inspirations
ON HOLIDAY on Cruit Island, just off Donegal's coast, noted Belfast-born composer Neil Martin is working on a piece to be premiered during this year's Mela festival.
Arts Q&A: Fionnuala Kennedy on Brian Friel, Christy Moore and Ken Loach
Jenny Lee puts performers and artists on the spot about what really matters to them. This week, playwright Fionnuala Kennedy
ArtBeat: Operas aplenty, Good Friday Agreement at 25, theatrical distractions and paintings to ponder in 2023
WHEN something happens once on the cultural graph, it may be interesting; twice, it's significant.
Weekend Q&A: Composer Neil Martin
How do you unwind at the weekend? As a freelance, the seven days of the week are similar so Saturday, Sunday and Monday merge.
Neil Martin: I'm rather used to the solitary existence of sitting at home alone at the piano, though I've fallen out with Joe Wicks
1. Up and at it - what is your new morning routine? How has it changed? I have always tended not to rise too early as I often compose late into the night, so I'm usually up around eight o'clock or 8.
Free concert celebrating global music at Clonard Monastery in Belfast
A FREE concert showcasing Belfast's growing global music scene will take place in the majestic surroundings of Clonard Monastery, Belfast on Wednesday March 4.
Tourism and arts bodies join with musicians and theatre groups to 'embrace the place'
TOURISM Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland have joined forces to launch Embrace The Place, an initiative in which the arts are being used to tell the stories of four of the north's tourism hotspots.
Stephen Rea revisits Bellaghy in Seamus Heaney's epic translation of Aeneid VI
STEPHEN Rea has just finished a six-week run of Belfast playwright David Ireland’s intense Cyprus Avenue, in the Royal Court Theatre in London, and is struggling to find his usual pitch and rich vocal tone.
Belfast Festival review: Seamus Heaney, Words and Music at the Duncairn centre
Seamus Heaney: Words and Music Duncairn SEAMUS Heaney's guttural muse was always profoundly melodic.
Sing to save buildings such as Carlisle Memorial Church
THE first of February – can you believe it? This is the month of romance with Saint Valentines Day on the 14th so you’ve a couple of weeks to take a look at your love life and decide if it’s what you desire.