Rayna Gellert is an Old Time American fiddler and singer-songwriter with deep roots in American traditional music that has led to her collaborating with artists such as Sara Watkins, Abigail Washburn and Loudon Wainwright III.

It’s the first episode of 2017 and it’s a good one!  I’m joined by Leonie McDonagh (aka Leoniepony) – creative powerhouse and director of Ponydance Theatre Company.  Leonie presents the solo ‘Idiom’ at Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival’s Out to Lunch pro...

In the last episode we started the THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SONG SHOWDOWN – a knock-out bracket to decide the best christmas song ever.  We worked our way through the first round match-ups and now we’re ready to decide the finals.

One year on from the first ever episode of The Jewel Case I decided to re-festive-ise my playlist and get some Christmas songs on the stereo.  This time last year I picked some of my favourite winter warmers for an intimate seasonal set.

This week I caught up with Duke Special ahead of his three-night stint at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre that caps off a year-long residency at the theatre.  I find out what the Duke has been up to in 2016 and how his creative process has changed since the re...

For this week’s podcast I took a trip to Edenderry Village to visit the home studio of illustrator Stephen Maurice Graham.  A few years ago Stephen decided to give it a bash as a full-time self-employed illustrator and since then he’s made big waves ge...

Last Thursday Outburst Queer Arts Festival hosted the Northern Irish premiere of KIKI – a documentary film about an LGBTQ youth-of-color subculture of New York City’s Ballroom scene, made famous in the early 1990s by Madonna’s music video “Vogue” and t...

So I managed to catch up with Tim Wheeler from Ash while he was backstage at Belfast’s Mandela Hall.  Ash are back in Belfast for performance at the Northern Irish Music Prize where they’re receiving the Oh Yeah Legend award for their amazing career in...

Ahhhh!  Halloween is around the corner so I thought I’d make a suitably spooky mix to soundtrack my doorbell paranoia.  I’ve concocted a playlist potion of some stone-cold-rigamortis classics and some especially gruesome deep cuts.  Sweet nightmares!

This weekend a large number of artists studios in Belfast are opening their doors for Belfast Open Studios.   For this week’s podcast I met with with Rob Hilken from Visual Arts Ireland to hear about the open-day and about how VAI help support local ar...