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Tommy Halferty, Philippe Aerts, Kevin Brady At Scott's Jazz Club
by Ian Patterson
Tommy Halferty, Philippe Aerts, Kevin Brady Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland December 1, 2023 The gentleman had arrived early to secure a table right in front of the stage, a fresh pint of Guinness settling nicely before him. He had seen guitarist Tommy Halferty before. The first time was in ...
Linda May Han Oh and Fabian Almazan At The MAC
by Ian Patterson
Linda May Han Oh & Fabian Almazan The MAC Belfast, N. Ireland 22 June, 2023 Partners on stage and partners off stage, Malaysian-born, Perth-raised bassist Linda May Han Oh, and Cuban-born, Miami-raised pianist Fabian Almazan, have been making music together for 17 years. More than just deeply-rooted empathy and intuition, ...
Enemy At Magy's Farm
by Ian Patterson
Enemy Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland May 18, 2023 Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren have played under the unusual moniker of Enemy since 2015, with their eponymous debut released on Dave Stapleton's Edition Records in 2018. The enemy in question may well be cliché and conformity because this ...
Tommy Halferty, Cormac O'Brien, Greg Felton At Scott's Jazz Club
by Ian Patterson
Tommy Halferty, Cormac O'Brien, Greg Felton Scott's Jazz Club Jazz In The Round Belfast, N. Ireland March 31, 2023 Sergei Rachmaninoff surely wouldn't have minded. As Chamber Choir Ireland was tackling the Russian composer's choral masterpiece All Night Vigil in a Belfast monastery, across town in Ballyhackamore another ...
Brilliant Corners 2023
by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland 2-11 March, 2023 One of the highlights of Belfast's music calendar, Brilliant Corners' eleventh annual shindig served up thirteen concerts over nine days. As ever, the main venue was Black Box, where audiences were treated to the best of Irish, British, European and North ...
Paul Clarvis Trio At Magy's Farm
by Ian Patterson
Paul Clarvis Trio Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland February 19, 2023 The last gig of Paul Clarvis Trio's fifteen-date UK tour to promote its debut album Freight Train (Village Life, 2022) was likely its smallest and furthest removed from bright city lights. Magy's Farm, a rural venue with a capacity of ...
My Name Is Ottilie At The Queen's Film Theatre + Q&A
by Ian Patterson
My Name Is Ottilie (DoubleBand Films, 2022) + Q&A Queen's Film Theatre Belfast, Northern Ireland January 28, 2023 Most music biopics tell a linear story, chapter by chapter, and then close the book. History as entertainment. The best documentaries, however, act as catalysts, creating a revival of interest in the subject, ...
Trio Grande At Magy's Farm
by Ian Patterson
Trio Grande Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland November 28, 2022 Set in the rolling drumlins of County Down with farmland rising and falling on all sides, a couple of weathered donkeys looking on and the Mourne Mountains rising majestically ahead, Magy's Farm, it is safe to say, is not quite ...
Jazz Promotion Network Irish Showcases At Black Box
by Ian Patterson
Jazz Promotion Network Irish Showcases At Black Box Black Box Jazz Promotion Network Conference Belfast, Northern Ireland November 3, 2022 As a UNESCO City of Music and as the host of Jazz Promotion Network's (JPN) annual conference (see separate article), Belfast was expected to deliver on the musical front. And ...
Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022
by Ian Patterson
Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022 The MAC Belfast, Northern Ireland November 3-4, 2022 Jazz Promotion Network's (JPN) annual conference saw over one hundred delegates gather at Belfast's Metropolitan Arts Centre (The MAC) for two days of talks, exchange of ideas and music showcases (see separate article). Founded around a decade ago, ...
