Category: Music
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Access to music education on the rise
In 2016, then Taoiseach Enda Kenny pledged to have music education accessible to every young person in Ireland within the next five years. That might have seemed over ambitious to some; or to others, simply another case of the government making more false promises.…
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Ten things to do in Dublin for Halloween
In order to get into the spooky spirit, here’s a list of fun and frightening things to do in Dublin this eerily festive season. 1) Samhain Tours & Tales at the GAA Museum https://crokepark.ie/news-and-events/samhain-tours-tales-at-the-gaa-museum This family friendly event consists of a scavenger hunt…
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Interview of Interest: Leah Kelly
Leah Kelly, a 20 year old upcoming singer from BIMM music college in Dublin, sat down with The City’s Kieva McLaughlin to discuss where she is now with her music and to tell us her plans for the future.
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Years and Years bring their infectious sound to the Olympia
At first glance, Years and Years don’t seem like the kind of band that will capture the hearts and minds of teenage girls. Their synth pop style is rooted in 90s R&B and they cite their influences as artists like Aaliyah and Blu…
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Fall Out Boy fans prove emo’s far from dead
Fall Out Boy are not a name that you would necessarily associate with the music scene of 2015. For many, they’re a band consigned solely to the dead subculture of ‘emo’ which was at its peak in the years between 2005 and 2010. But…
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Dublin DJ unites Hozier and Noel Gallagher for charity
Hozier, Noel Gallagher and Florence Welsh, have weighed in to raise much needed funds for breast cancer research. Irish DJ Greg McQuaid who works on a popular morning radio show KFOG FM, in San Francisco, came up with the idea of a charity…
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Noel Gallagher Rocks Dublin’s 3Arena
Noel Gallagher continued his UK and Ireland arena tour Wednesday night with a 90 minute performance at Dublin’s 3Arena. Ireland’s largest indoor music venue saw the singer-songwriter and his High Flying Birds play a string of songs from his two solo albums…
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Will Madonna be the super-hero fighting against the Front National?
Madonna was invited on a French TV Show a few days ago and shared her point of view concerning the Front National. For those of you who have never heard of the Front National, they are an extreme-right party which bases their political…
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Pond, Live at Whelan’s
Remember Pond? In one of The City’s previous articles, I told you that their gig in Dublin was a must-go-to. We talked about the psychedelic dimension of the band, but here in Dublin, on the 19th of February 2015, their gig at Whelan’s…
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Sermanni and Terrell to be watched on the folk scene
By Sinéad Fitzgerald Twenty three year old Scottish folk musician Rachel Sermanni and American folk/blues artist Tom Terrell have just completed the Irish leg of their 2015 tour. They are due to perform at a number of venues in Great Britain, including Oxford,…
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