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Should be of some interest. The documentary has been around for a bit (I missed a screening in Kilkee a year ago) but it seems to be getting more exposure at the moment. A lot of the usual suspects:

The job of songs

Lila Schmitz’s documentary offers a candid look at Irish music and community struggles in a small Irish village known for its bar-room sessions

Lila Schmitz’s film diligently unpicks a paradox at the heart of Doolin’s musical continuum: that it both fends off and nourishes an endemic black dog.

The job of songs : review

Thanks for this. I like how it touches - more like inspects, actually - more on the community and its individuals, and what the music expresses of them. To me this has always been the heart of the matter: I can communicate, through the music, what I otherwise have no voice for.

Never knew the metaphor of the "black dog" until now. You learn something new every day.

Never knew the metaphor of the "black dog" until now

Samuel Johnson:

When I rise my breakfast is solitary, the black dog waits to share it, from breakfast to dinner he continues barking...