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Greetings!
 Festival fever has taken hold in CNI HQ, as we await the arrival of the Ulster Orchestra's Chopin Festival, the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival and Feile an Earraigh. This month, take tea with actress Blenda Blethyn, listen to violin virtuoso Ruby Colley and an exclusive extract from Ian Sansom's latest novel, and watch a slideshow of photographs from the European Music Photographer of the Year, Graham Smith. Also this issue, Tammy Moore gets a 60s makeover ahead of Frock Around the Clock, our critics tell us what they think of Channel 4's Mo and bad-boy Pete Doherty, and we offer tickets to see Cathal O'Searcaigh, Peatbog Faeries and Midge Ure. Team CNI
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 Brenda Blethyn
The Academy Award-nominated actress looks forward to treading the boards in Edna O'Brien's Haunted.  Rita Duffy 'Damien Hirst is a complete charlatan.' Belfast's busiest artist talks about what makes good art and cultural courage.  Graham Smith'I don't
particularly like photography that much,' says the European Music Photographer of the Year.
 Vintage Arts JournalistCNI's own Tammy Moore undergoes a vintage makeover, with the team behind Frock Around the Clock.
 Live NationActor Gary Carr bares all, ahead of QFT's live screening of the Terry Pratchett play Nation at the National Theatre.
 Ruby Colley
Listen to exclusive tracks from the violin virtuoso's forthcoming album, and discover her ground-breaking technique.
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 Out To Lunch: Ian Paisley
'I did
the praying and [Martin McGuinness] did the listening, but he wanted me to do it.' 
 Ian Sansom
Unionist
politicians, marital infidelity, financial chicanery and elections in The Bad Book Affair.
 A Chopin Festival
The Ulster Orchestra commemorate the 'poet of
the piano rather than the master of the orchestra'.
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 Phil Vassar, Madison's Hotel, Belfast, Jan 29. Country music star kicks off the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival.
 Transatlantic Sessions, Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Feb 4. Stellar folk line-up including Cara Dillon, Eddi Reader and Karen Matheson.
 The Ex and Brass Unbound, The Black Box, Belfast, Feb 6. Moving On Music present a carnival of sound, with Zun Zun Egui in support.
 Come and Sing, RBAI, Feb 6. Belfast Philharmonic Choir and conductor Christopher Bell invite you to join them for Verdi's Requiem.
 Poetry Readings, The John Hewitt, Feb 7. Frank Ormsby and Eilish Martin lead the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the John Hewitt bar.  The Absence of Women, Lyric Theatre at the Elmwood Hall, Belfast, Feb 8 - 27. World premiere of Owen McCafferty's new play.
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