Series 2, Programme 2: Frank Custy’s, Toonagh
By Paula Carroll | January 20, 2009
Frank Custy
What a night in Frank Custy’s in Toonagh Last Sunday. I think I experienced the full range of radio-producers emotions in just 2 hours. - from the need to be in control of a production to the euphoria of losing control and letting the show take its own course. We like to have around 8 core musicians, and weave the others in and out of the show. Last night we had about 19, I think - not counting listeners who whipped flutes out of pockets and sat in on the session towards the end. But once I gave up on the notion that I had any influence over them, and let them off, it was great!
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Topics: Frank Custy, Toonagh, Podcasts, Series 2 |
Series 2, Programme 1: Queally’s of Fanore
By Paula Carroll | January 14, 2009
Paula Carroll and Patsy Carrucan
Still high as a kite after the session at Paddy Queally’s in Fanore! (Click here to download the MP3) I just love being able to spend the day in the company of musicians and singers in their own element, in their own place. And they call this work!! Delighted too with the pictures of the sessions that Matteo took. If you scroll really fast through them all, you get a sense of the whole evening in sequence. Try it!
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Topics: Paddy Quealy, Fanore, Podcasts, Series 2 |
Kitchen Sessions Series 2 is launched!
By Paula Carroll | January 14, 2009
Welcome to the website of The Kitchen Sessions, a unique series of traditional music live broadcasts from Clare musicians’ kitchens at home and abroad. The Kitchen Sessions is produced for Clare FM by Rag and Bone Productions, with the support of the Sound & Vision Fund of the BCI and Clare Co. Council Arts Office.
Topics: Series 2 |