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TG4 2009 Musician of the Year, Charlie Harris, on The Kitchen Sessions

Here’s a little memory from one of last year’s Kitchen Sessions - Mickey Naughton’s in Kilclaran, Feakle. It features - among other things - Charlie Harris who has been selected as winner of this year’s TG4 Musician of the Year. Sometimes they get it so right. This is one such time! Charlie was born in Kilfinnan, Co. Limerick, but is a longtime resident of Ardrahan, Co. Galway. He has been travelling the high roads with musical companion Des Mulkere for a long time now. Last year they graced one...

Mar 04, 200914 min

Dan Gurney

Here’s a little something to keep you going till the next (and final) Kitchen Session this Sunday. Dan Gurney is a young accordion player from upstate NewYork, who learned the nuts and bolts from Fr. Charlie Coen. He gave us some great music in the Boston Kitchen Session along with his musical companions, Maeve Flanagan (fiddle) and Jimmy Noonan (flute). Now a music student at Harvard (where “they don’t really get the box”!), I caught up with him just after the Kitchen Session to record more mus...

Feb 21, 200913 min

Series 2, Programme 5: Kellys’ of New Jersey

Sorry for the delay in posting this MP3 here. The Kitchen Sessions crew have been a little jet-lagged! Paula will post more information about this programme shortly. In the meantime, enjoy the show, and don’t forget to tune in to Clare FM at 5pm today for the final programme in the series, live from Pakie Malley’s kitchen in Tulla. (That show will also be a podcast later.)

Feb 15, 20091 min

Meeting Joe Derrane in Boston

I had the loveliest day with Joe Derrane on Thursday last. I have been fascinated by his story - he recorded some highly acclaimed 78s in the 1940s, then disappeared from the Irish music scene and was presumed dead, only to make the comeback of all comebacks in 1994. And he’s playing better music than ever now at age 79. I wanted to meet him, so Jimmy Noonan made the call, and Gerry Dunleavy drove me down to Randolph, 11 miles south of Boston. What a gentleman. And what a storyteller. We talked ...

Feb 05, 200910 min

Series 2, Programme 4: Dunleavy’s of Boston

The Kitchen Sessions from Boston was broadcast last night on Clare FM - and now here’s the podcast! Watch this space in the next few days for photographs and stories from “behind the scenes” of this session! If you use iTunes, click here to subscribe for automatic download of this and future episodes . And don’t forget there’s another chance to hear the show on Clare FM on Wednesday night!...

Feb 02, 20091 hr 37 min
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