MartinHayes

Press

• Peggy's Dream - album review

  Mar 2023

  • An unquenchable affinity with the melody line has defined Martin Hayes’s musical odyssey, along with an insatiable appetite for adventure.

    • The Irish Times
    • 31 March 2023

• Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble

  Vicar Street, Dublin

  Oct 2023

  • Hayses’s admission that when a tune is lying around in his head for too long, there’s no knowing what he’s going to do with it, summed up the evening: unpredictable, richly textured, at times delirious and so, so full of heart.

    • The Irish Times
    • 20 October 2023

• Martin Hayes Recital

  The Queens Hall, Edinburgh

  Mar 2020

  • He outlines its contours, while shaping and re-shaping its content, introducing an element of improvisation, and never losing sight of its form.

    • Edinburgh Music Review
    • 06 March 2020

• Martin Hayes & the Common Ground Ensemble

  National Concert Hall, Dublin

  Mar 2022

  • This was seven highly skilled and self-assured musicians, drawn from different backgrounds but playing utterly in their element.

    • The Journal of Music