Thursday, 8 January 2009

What's on the TV? (or RnaG)

I want to add to the list of music shows on TG4, the following show, hosted by Nioclás Ó Cearbhalláin, the presenter of Siar an Bóthar, which is related to an RTÉ program called West Along the Road.

Ó Cearbhalláin is the archivist at the new Taisce Cheol Dhúchais Éireann that's moved to 73 Merrion Square in Dublin.

This fantastic show on TG4.tv--Siar an Bóthar---uses the RTÉ's considerable archives to pick out choice pieces, I'll give a list of the clips Ó Cearbhalláin chose this week:

April 1979 (program: Aisling Gheal): bodhrán and tin whistle, Johnny McDonagh and Frankie Gavin, reels, Boys of Ballysdare and the Longford Colelctor

September 1989 (program: Festival Folk) Seán Cannon (a Dubliner after Luke Kelly) singing The Banks of the Roses.

April 1987 (program: Mountain Lark) flute and bozouki?, Thomas Guihan and Seán Ó Loinsigh, reels, Cáit an Táiliúra, Charlie Harris', Galway Rambler

1976, Bothy Band, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill singing the rhythmically rich Fionnghuala, a Gallic song more longly called Am Bothan a Bh'aig Fionnghuala (Finúla's Hut).

April 1982 (program: My Own Place: Ciarán Mac Mathúna's Limerick) Bell Harbour a Clare band with Chris Droney on concertina doing the music for a kitchen house dance

April 1987 (program: The Mountain Lark) Jimmy Hartford on box three hornpipes including the Boys of Blue hill for competitive step dancers

November 1988 (program: The Pure Drop) whistle and fiddle, Mary Bergin Peter Sorenson, slide and tune, Pádraig O'Keefe's, Liam Collins',

The show was just great and well worth watching.

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