The fiddle player extraordinaire, Seán Keane kicks off the new series of ‘Sé Mo Laoch on TG4. ‘Sé Mo Laoch is the longest running documentary music series on TG4 and it celebrates heroes of Irish traditional music. Now in its eighth series since it started in 2001 it will return to our screens each Sunday…
Bringing Dan O’Connell’s of Knocknagree back to life for an hour or so in front of an audience is the task in the safe hands of one of Sliabh Luchra music’s most devoted students, Matt Cranitch. He’ll do so at Scartaglin Heritage Centre at 8pm sharp on this Saturday night, January 28th as part of…
A full house at the River Island Hotel on Sunday night was treated to outstanding performances from a wide range of musicians. The occasion was the annual concert of the Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival where Tim Dennehy was the Master of Ceremonies. The Clare based, Ballinskelligs born singer also contributed a couple of songs…
The 24th annual Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival Castleisland, Co. Kerry, Ireland. October 28th – 31st 2016 Est. 1993. Provisional programme, subject to change. Friday, October 28th at 8.30pm. Official launch at the River Island Hotel. 10pm. Pub Trail begins with organised and impromptu sessions with Ireland’s top traditional musicians in pubs throughout the town.…
The Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival will be held in Castleisland from Friday, October 28th to Monday, October 31st inclusive. There have been some years when the Gods have only barely concealed their collective sense of devilment and black humour. In that handful of occasions they steered the annual Patrick O’Keeffe Traditional Music Festival into…
A busy as usual Handed Down Series of concerts and lectures will be launched at the Scartaglin Heritage Centre in conjunction with Culture Night 2016 on Friday, September 16th at 7-30pm. The launch will be accompanied by a free concert featuring the buttons and bows of Jackie Daly, Matt Cranitch and guests. The line-up for…
The Kerry County Council backed Culture Night 2016 will impact locally with a free concert at Scartaglin Heritage Centre by Jackie Daly and Matt Cranitch on Friday, September 16th at 7-30pm. The dual purpose event will also see the launch of the 2016 / 2017 season of Handed Down concerts and talks. Culture Night has…
A Sibéal Teo / Sé Mo Laoch TV crew from TG4 visited Scartaglin earlier this year in February to shoot part of their documentary on the life and times of box player extraordinaire, Jackie Daly. In the Scart segment of the shoot Jackie was accompanied by Matt Cranitch. The programme, now completed, includes interviews with:…
Beyond clear indications of the outright success of the weekend’s activity, there is no visible smoke from the joint, Handed Down / World Fiddle Day stack yet. The flame is still burning too brightly today for any traces of afterthought and I know from experience that it can take anything up to a week for…
There are people in many parts of the world who have made travel plans over the past couple of months and even weeks. Their destination: Scartaglin and Castleisland. They’re coming from the USA, from the UK and from the low, low lands of Holland and from all quarters of Ireland. All drawn by the draíocht…
