ABSTRACT
This chapter explores musical spaces at night as experienced by African migrant and diasporic musicians in Ireland. Through a photo essay, musicians featured in this chapter move between and across multiple musical contexts and sites, finding new, open, and sometimes experimental opportunities across urban night space. Rooted in the individual and collective experiences of night clubs, community events, open mic nights and traditional pub settings, the photographs and accompanying text draw together connections and nuanced understandings across disparate nocturnal musical spaces in the cities of Cork and Galway. Taking the musical night as our frame and photographs as our canvas, we provide aesthetic insights into how African migrant and diasporic musicians project identities over space and time at night.
