Nialler9 — Skip to day: Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon Tuesday January 3rd Christy Moore @ Vicar Street (€39+) Kildare folk legend. more info

Guardian Music — (Sony Music)Ireland’s finest singer-songwriter and interpreter of other people’s songs returns with his first album in three years. Christy Moore’s new set is as varied as his celebrated live performances: unexpected songs are re... more info

ContactMusic — Irish folk legend Christy Moore is to perform for Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama.The spiritual guru will be entertained by Moore when he... more info

ContactMusic — Irish folk star Christy Moore has apologised to fans for cancelling two shows in Dublin, Ireland due to ill health.The singer was due to perform at... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonChristy Moore may be in his mid 60s, but he is still a fine, soulful singer and an entertainer who dares to challenge his audiences. A burly figure, dressed in black T-shirt and jeans, he perched on a stool alongside Declan... more info

Guardian Music — Purcell Room, LondonFor a brief moment it seemed that this adventurous marriage of technology and tradition was doomed from the start. Surrounded by five musicians playing fiddle, dulcimer, pipes and piano, Gerry Diver turned to the computer at the b... more info

Guardian Music — The innate musicality of speech has inspired Gerry Diver's Speech Project. Colin Irwin talks to him, and looks at the chequered history of words and popular music"Speech … speech is dripping with musicality. There's a real magic to it," says Gerry ... more info

Nialler9 — Electric Picnic announced its initial lineup for 2012 today for Friday 31st August to Sunday 2nd September in Stradbally Hall, Co. Laois. The Cure, Sigur Rós, Elbow, Grizzly Bear, Orbital, Christy Moore, The Roots, Hot Chip, Glen Hansard, The xx, â€... more info

Guardian Music — (One Fine Day)The idea is certainly original: take a series of interviews with well-known Irish musicians, and then mix short excerpts of speech with instrumental work that follows the rhythms of a spoken phrase. The interviewees include Christy Moor... more info

Guardian Music — (Sony) Folk tales are constantly changing, and that's the way Christy Moore treats his songs. He pays attention to every lyric he sings and is happy to revisit his earlier work. So it is with this new recording of 11 songs. Production is by multi-in... more info