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SPOTLIGHT: Historically informed performances - Kieran Beville Reporter: ');  '); LOCAL musicians have created a new organisation to support historically informed performance in Limerick and its environs. March 21 is the confluence of a number of notable events – it is the spring equinox, and for classical music fans it is JS Bach’s birthday! Even more specifically for lovers of classical music, the 21st of March is annually feted around Europe and the world as Early Music Day. A few local music professionals have taken it upon themselves to bring new life to early music in the Treaty C...

Music Network and Wicklow County Council Arts Office invite County Wicklow residents aged 55 and over to participate in a new shared learning music project with renowned Wicklow quartet Sonamus. Making Music with Sonamus: the Wicklow Teaching Residency presented by Music Network and Wicklow County Council Arts Office offers participants individual and group tuition on piano, guitar, cello or whistle between January and June 2021. Tuition is entirely free of charge and instruments will be provided as needed for the duration of the project. Reading music is not essential for participation in ...

Twenty-four artists from across the county have been awarded Bursary Awards totalling almost €320,000. The funding, granted by the Arts Council to more than 530 people in 27 counties, aims to help musicians, actors, writers, dancers, filmmakers, and visual and other artists to develop their art. The Arts Council said that, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, it had added significantly to the amount available in its second round of bursaries for 2020, and encouraged artists in every art form and area of arts practice to apply. In total, more than €7 million will be invested across the fu...