In a further boost for this weekend’s World Fiddle Day Scartaglin celebrations, RTÉ has expressed an interest in recording part of tomorrow night’s concert in the village. The national broadcaster is especially interested in capturing the unique, all fiddle concert at Scartaglin Heritage Centre. Interest in the concert and in the day as a whole…
Members of the extended O’Connor family gathered for a photograph in Scartaglin during the week with Jack Shanahan, Chairman of the Castleisland branch of the Kerry Hospice Foundation. The occasion was the presentation of the proceeds of Jack O’Connor Memorial Shave at Fleming’s Bar at the end of August. The amount raised in the course…
I’m delighted to report that World Fiddle Day got off to a ripping start here in Castleisland on Friday night and it continued in that vein right throughout the weekend. Browne’s Bar hosted the opening night of what promised to be a wonderful weekend of the music most favoured in this neck-of-the-woods. This is the…
I’m delighted to report that World Fiddle Day got off to a ripping start here in Castleisland last night. Browne’s Bar hosted the opening night of what promised to be a wonderful weekend of the music most favoured in this neck-of-the-woods. This is the first real ‘toe-in-the-water’ event for the organisers and the fact that…
Excitement is mounting these days in traditional music circles in the locality and out beyond. It’s particularly so among the huge numbers of fiddle players and their music loving followers therein. The weekend here in the Castleisland and Scartaglin areas will see a gathering of fiddle players and their disciples the like of which was…
Saturday, May 17th. is World Fiddle Day. PJ Teahan and friends: Tom O’Connell, Mick Culloty and Con Moynihan are planning a special weekend of fiddle music in Castleisland and Scartaglin. The event will get under way on Friday evening at Browne’s Bar at 9-30pm. That’ll be used for turning-up, tuning-up, limbering up and lubricating up in…
