Music Current Festival is an annual contemporary music festival produced by Dublin Sound Lab. The festival offers a showcase of contemporary Irish and new international electronic music in an accessible and friendly environment. As well as the main concert programme, the festival includes workshops, professional development classes, and public panel discussions. 'The highly-specialised new music festival, Music Current, presented what was the new music performance of the year.' Michael Dervan, The Irish Times 'If one wanted to experience the very latest cutting-edge trends in new music,

Irish singer songwriter Padraig Jack released his second album These Shores on 18 October. This is the follow-up to his successful debut Making Sand which was released in 2020, was named RTÉ Album of the Week, and also received a nomination for an RTÉ Folk Award for Best Original Song for the track ‘Making Sand’. These Shores has contributions from family and friends as well as some Irish music legends. Padraig has included a song penned by his dad Barry Ronan, and siblings Cathal and Aisling, uncle Seamus and cousin Ronan also provide musical input. Padraig has collaborated with his

Anglo/Irish folk band The Haar brings the formidable singing talent of All-Ireland Scór na nÓg winner Molly Donnery combined with three of the most exciting instrumentalists on the folk and traditional music scene in Cormàc Byrne (Show of Hands/Seth Lakeman), Adam Summerhayes, and Murray Grainger (both of the FATEA award-winning The Ciderhouse Rebellion). Known for taking a familiar tune and turning it into something breathtakingly fresh and ambitious, this band of high level improvisers produce ever-changing musical soundscapes, while Molly lets her sublime vocals flow to stunning effec