The current series of Sé Mo Laoch started last month on TG4 with a look at The Chieftan’s fiddle player, Seán Keane. Tonight, Sunday, March 12th is the turn of Kanturk born box player, Jackie Daly and you can see it at 9:30pm on TG4. Jackie Daly has become know almost as much for his…
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…
The RTÉ Radio One traditional music flagship, The Rolling Wave will include the second and concluding broadcast of recordings made at the May 21st World Fiddle Day in Scartaglin on this Sunday night’s programme from 9pm. The programme, like last Sunday’s broadcast, will feature the finest of fiddle music from the stage of the Scartaglin…
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:…
A quick reminder, to whom it concerns, that Peter Browne’s RTÉ Radio 1 traditional music programme the Rolling Wave is devoting its four August Sunday night / Monday evening slots to celebrating the music of Sliabh Luachra. In the course of the four programmes the piper and broadcaster will be remembering two great fiddle-players from…
