‘Take Me to Church’: Developing Music Worlds Through the Creative Peripheral Placemaking and Programming of Other Voices

Abstract

Other Voices is an Irish music festival, multi-site cultural event and television series, with a 20-year history in Dingle, a remote peninsula on the Wild Atlantic Way tourist trail in Ireland. Today it succeeds in disrupting popular perceptions about Irish music, highlighting the emerging creative diversity of the country, but this was not always the case. Social network analysis is used to unpack the relationship between regional place-based events and performers. Despite being a geographically dispersed network which has expanded over the years to make translocal links with regional cities and international music cities, like Berlin, London and New York, it is the music trails of Dingle and Ballina that remain most central providing opportunities for music mobilities between regions within Ireland and internationally.