In this episode, Cal Folger Day talks to Martin Cook about her journey from playing classical music on the piano and sticking strictly to the sheet music, to writing her own songs and arranging verbatim pop operas – and she performs some of her songs for an audience at Marrowbone Books in the Coombe.   

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Music at Marrowbone Books: Cal Day Folger

Elizabeth Laprelle’s first singing partner was, she says, her mother Sandy Newlin. In this month’s Music at Marrowbone Books, Laprelle talks to Martin Cook about ballads and banjos, combining story-telling with music, and the influence of her hometown barber. “I’m a collector, not a composer,” she says, finding pleasure in songs that may not be new, but are new to her. Some are from the US’s southern music traditions, others from northern. Listen to the breadth of a collector’s repertoire, and you can see their personality, she says. This episode also includes snippets from Laprelle’s recent performance with Newlin at Marrowbone Books in the Coombe – with the songs they have collected.

Music at Marrowbone Books: Elizabeth Laprelle

Rachel Ní Chuinn swapped guitar for clarinet a few years ago, which she melds with live electronics into expressive sound. In this month’s Music at Marrowbone Books, the musician and sound artist – and member of the Dublin Laptop Orchestra – performs some of her improvisations. They build on themselves, reverberating, layer upon layer. Thinking about sound as a physical medium has led Ní Chuinn down all kinds of paths. From music exploring the afterglow static of the Big Bang, to works inspired by the acoustics of neolithic caves.

Music at Marrowbone Books: Rachel Ní Chuinn

Sinéad and Catríona Kennedy often play Donegal-style traditional tunes, but sometimes they're originals. Where do those songs come from? It's like they're hanging in the air, in a space, waiting to be plucked, says Sinéad. "I feel like tunes are kind of around, and you happen upon them." In this month's Music at Marrowbone Books, the Kennedy Sisters chat with Martin Cook about the origins of their fiddle-playing, singing with neighbours  – and, of course, they play and sing a little too. 

Music at Marrowbone Books: the Kennedy Sisters

Some of Danny Carroll's song-writing starts with an essay, he tells Martin Cook, in this month's Dublin music podcast. That's to get his thoughts straight. Then, he'll simmer that down into the snarky commentary on modern life that runs through the songs of Shrug Life.  You can hear him perform and talk about some of those tracks here and how his music has evolved to broadened – with tracks inspired by how political systems are reflected in mundane everyday choices, to living with anxiety.    

Music at Marrowbone Books: Shrug Life

Supply & Demand is a four-episode podcast about Dublin’s housing crisis. In this final episode, we’re asking: why aren’t we building the right homes for people? Why aren’t they the right shape or size, why aren’t they in the right place, and why do they cost so much? To answer those questions, we’ll have to get down to the foundations of how housing works, so we’ll have to talk about land. Supply & Demand is a Dublin Inquirer podcast, produced and presented by Ian Maleney, with support from GoCar. 

Supply & Demand: Episode 4

In this latest episode of our Music at Marrowbone Books podcast, Consuelo Breschi and Lucie Azconaga of Varo talk about their journeys from Florence and Bordeaux to Ireland's trad music scene. And, alongside Belfast bouzouki player Frank Tate, they perform some traditional Irish tunes with "sensuous, harmonious" vocals and "mystical" countermelodies.

Music at Marrowbone Books: Varo

Supply & Demand is a podcast about Dublin’s housing crisis. Over the course of four episodes, we look at the history of housing in the capital, the recent growth of renting in the city, new pressures on the housing stock, and the stumbling blocks that slow down new construction. Finally, we look forward and ask, what will Dublin be like in twenty years’ time? In this episode, we look at short-term lets, and student accommodation. Supply & Demand is a Dublin Inquirer podcast, produced and presented by Ian Maleney, with support from GoCar. New episodes weekly on Wednesdays.

Supply & Demand: Episode 3

Supply & Demand is a podcast about Dublin’s housing crisis. Over the course of four episodes, we look at the history of housing in the capital, the recent growth of renting in the city, new pressures on the housing stock, and the stumbling blocks that slow down new construction. Finally, we look forward and ask, what will Dublin be like in twenty years’ time? Supply & Demand is a Dublin Inquirer podcast, produced and presented by Ian Maleney, with support from GoCar. This is episode 2. New episodes weekly on Wednesdays.

Supply & Demand: Episode 2

Supply & Demand is a podcast about Dublin’s housing crisis. Over the course of four episodes, we look at the history of housing in the capital, the recent growth of renting in the city, new pressures on the housing stock, and the stumbling blocks that slow down new construction. Finally, we look forward and ask, what will Dublin be like in twenty years’ time? Supply & Demand is a Dublin Inquirer podcast, produced and presented by Ian Maleney, with support from GoCar. This is episode 1. New episodes weekly on Wednesdays.

Supply & Demand: Episode 1

In this episode, Wicklow-born multi-instrumentalist and folk artist Anna Mieke plays some songs at the bookshop in The Coombe. And the musician and songwriter also chats with Martin Cook about the piano that always tempted her in her hallway, the different personalities of the instruments she plays, her many travels, and her love of Cork.

Music at Marrowbone Books: Anna Mieke

Singer and songwriter Bobby Aherne talks about the origins of his art-pop act, No Monster Club – and why you might spot him walking down the street and humming into his phone.

Music at Marrowbone Books: No Monster Club

Music at Marrowbone Books: Cathal Caulfield

Dave Lordan staggers into Gatsby's "niteclub" in West Cork in search of a girl, and straight into an encounter with hell, in the sweaty and heart-thumping finale of this six-part podcast memoir. 

The Dead Friends: Episode 6

In this episode, you'll hear Richie's story. About picking mushies over Inchydoney Bay in 1993, about how he spent a summer on building sites in London, about how he later ended up in prison, and about how he died. This is the fifth episode in a six-episode podcast memoir by Dave Lordan, centred on a party in a bedsit in Dunmanway, West Cork in 1993, five teenagers who gathered there, and what became of each. Only one – Lordan – is left on this Earth in 2018. Catch new episodes of The Dead Friends each Wednesday from 26 September to 31 October 2018.

The Dead Friends: Episode 5

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