The difference in dynamic created by Martin Hayes’s latest collective, The Common Ground Ensemble, is a joy to behold. Hayes has long been a musician with an appetite for adventure. Never one to rest ...

It's not very often – well, in fact, this is a first – that Aristotle has appeared in this space, but a phrase trotted about was attributed to him written some 2,370 years ago in his monumental work ...

Last Friday, I told my Spanish teacher – who is from Argentina – that I was interviewing the master fiddle player Martin Hayes that afternoon. She mentioned it to her South Armagh-born husband who in ...