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Death announced of folk singer Mary McPartlan

In Memoriam

President Michael D Higgins has led the tributes to "one of Ireland's great folk singers", Mary McPartlan, whose death has been announced.

David Gray performs in Ballina

David Gray stars in an Other Voices special

Death announced of Leitrim fiddle legend Ben Lennon

Childish Gambino to Dua Lipa - Arena on the latest music releases

William Brittelle boards the Mystery Train

Listen: Composer William Brittelle boards the Mystery Train

Watch: Hozier perfoms 'Take Me To Church' on The Late Late Show

Hozier's stunning version of The Parting Glass on The Late Late

Tune Of The Week: Original Bad Boy Material by Steo Wall

Tune Of The Week

Composer Jennifer Walshe features in The Lyric Feature: Stranger Than We Thought

Ireland's avant garde artists uncovered: The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature

Watch: Maire Carroll's Hidden Pianos - live in her living room

Watch Liz Roche's stunning Bastard Amber online - see below

The Daily Distraction - stuff to watch, read and sing along to

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Pearl Jam dynamite despair on huge-hearted Gigaton

Sharp-dressed piano-player: Aaron Diehl

Album review: Aaron Diehl - The Vagabond

A new band worth shouting about

Higher Power put it up to big names on second album

Green Day test their paternity on Father of All

Tony Williams, gifted, highly lyrical drummer, born Chicago, 1945, died Daly City, California 1997.

Tony Williams: Foreign Intrigue

Tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, trombonist Curtis Fuller with bandleader/drummer Art Blakey at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York in 1964

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Buhaina's Delight

Divinely-appointed trio: Hussain, McLaughlin, Mahadevan

McLaughlin, Mahadevan, Hussain - Is That So?

Keenan: dweller on the threshold

David Keenan's rush of blood to the head

Alto saxophonist Lee Konitz performing in the Netherlands in 1992

Alone Together Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden

Julia Hülsmann: exquisite poise and a David Bowie cover in an album of challenging music

Album Review:Julia Hülsmann Quartet - Not far From Here

Still wowing the faithful: 67-year old John Scofield performing in Rome last February

Album review: John Scofield Hand Jive

Maciej Obara Quartet bridge the Baltic from Poland to Norway

Maciej Obara Quartet - Three Crowns