Listen to what happened at Frankie Kennedy Winter School launch

Tune in this coming Sunday night to the Rolling Wave which will include the Frankie Kennedy Winter School launch which was part of the Donegal Gaeltacht Night in Dublin last November. The night was hosted by Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh, and featured many special performances >>>

Big Music Week: Cló Iar-Chonnacht music label

From RTE.ie: “Tonight, Raidió na Gaeltachta will broadcast a concert recorded in the summer of this year at the Galway Arts Festival. The concert featured artists recorded on the Cló Iar-Chonnacht music label which is celebrating a quarter century in business this year. The concert featured some of the cream of Irish music, including Marcus Ó Murchú – fear an tí, Ben Lennon, Tony O’Connell and Brian McGrath, Conal and Oisín Ó hIarnáin, Cyril O’Donoghue, Brian Hughes, Nan Tom Taimín de Búrca, Mick, Michelle and Louise Mulcahy, dancers Gearóid and Pádraig Ó Dubháin, John Carty and Brian McGrath, John Faulkner, John Wynne, John McEvoy and Jacinta McEvoy, Johnny Connolly and Johnny Óg Connolly.”

South Wind Blows live

[In a rasping whisper] South Wind Blows Live this Sunday 17 Oct at 9 pm with Philip King will be coming to us across the airwaves from St. James’s Church, An Daingean, Co Kerry.

The performers include Gemma Hayes, Mick Flannery, Séamus Begley, Low Mountain, Lisa O Neill, Eoin Duignan, and (last but definitely not least) Eithne Ní Chatháin.

Liam Kelly’s new album

Delighted to hear Liam Kelly of Dervish on RTE Radio 1 Arts Show yesterday discussing his solo record, Sweetwood. http://www.dervish.ie/smallwood.html