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SUMMARY:RTE Radio 1's Sunday Miscellany
DESCRIPTION:RTE Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany – Recording in the Abbey Arts Centre Sunday 4th October 2015 at 3pm – Event Free – Booking is advisable. Event organised by Blue Stackes Festival 2015\nRTE Radio One\nSunday Miscellany\nMary O’Donnell\, The Henry Girls\, Little John Nee\, Nuala Ní Chonchúir\, Frank Galligan\, Aidan O’Donnell\, Danny Meehan\, Denise Blake\, Olive Travers\, Amy Gillen\, Seamie O’Dowd\, Martin McGinley\, Colette Ní Ghallchóir\, Joe Brennan\, Dave McHugh. \nSunday October 4th\nThe Abbey Arts Cente\, Ballyshannon. 3.00pm  FREE \nMary O’Donnell is a novelist\, short story writer and poet. A member of Aosdána\, she has written six works of fiction to-date including the novels\, Where They Lie and The Elysium Testament\, as well as the short story collection\, Storm Over Belfast.  Her poetry collections include The Place of Miracles and\, most recently\, Those April Fevers\, both with Ark Publications. Mary has also judged the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, the Hennessy Literary Award\, the Strokestown International Poetry Competition and\, most recently\, the Irish Times/Mountains to Sea Poetry Prize.  \nThe Henry Girls are Karen\, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin from Malin.  Fresh from their first headlining show in the beautiful Dublin Unitarian Church on St. Stephen’s Green\, the Inishowen sisters have become one of the most talked about folk/roots acts to come out of Ireland in recent times. Their stunning vocal and instrumental virtuosity\, combined with a warm and natural stage presence\, has captivated audiences on worldwide stages in the UK\, Germany\, America\, Scandinavia\, Italy\, Switzerland\, Holland and Austria.  \nLittle John Nee is a writer\, performer and musician based in County Galway. His shows have received critical acclaim internationally and his show\, Sparkplug\, won him an Irish Times Theatre Award for Sound Design while the RTÉ radio version of the play won a Prix Italia Award. Earlier this year he has produced and performed a series of five memoir shows at the Town Hall Studio in Galway and most recently he has performed a new theatre concert show\, with the Caledonia Highly Strung Orchestra\, based on the their debut album\, Songs from the Lough Swilly Delta.  John also created the sound design and composed a number of new songs for this year’s Earagail Arts Festival commissioned play\, She Knit The Roof \nNuala Ní Chonchúir was born in Dublin\, she lives in East Galway. She has published four short story collections\, the most recent Mother America appeared from New Island in 2012. Nuala’s critically acclaimed second novel The Closet of Savage Mementos appeared in 2014\, also from New Island; it was shortlisted for the Kerry Irish Novel of the Year Award 2015. Under the name Nuala O’Connor\, Penguin USA\, Penguin Canada and Sandstone (UK) published Nuala’s third novel\, Miss Emily\, about the poet Emily Dickinson and her Irish maid\, in summer 2015. www.nualanichonchuir.com\nFrank Galligan is a writer and broadcaster with Irish TV and Highland Radio.  He is also a published poet and short story writer and winner of the McCrea and Walter Allen awards for Literature. For over ten years he organised and MC’d the Bluegrass On The Walls concert series in Derry\, was resident MC for the Longford Banjo Festival and still MC’s the annual Bluegrass Festival in the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh. In 1997\, he was the NI Chairman of the UK National Year of Reading and is a creative writing facilitator and storyteller with Poetry Ireland and the Pushkin Trust. \nAidan O’Donnell is a hugely admired traditional fiddle player in the Donegal style. A native of Dunkineely and a former TG4 Young Musician of the Year\, he is a founder member of the traditional trio Fidil. He is also a much sought after music tutor and is a regular lecturer at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance\, University of Limerick.\nAidan O’Donnell  \nDanny Meehan is a master Donegal fiddle player from Drimalost\, near Mountcharles. In 2012\, after his return to Donegal having spent over 50 years living and working in London\, he was awarded the prestiguous TG4 Gradam Ceoil/ Lifetime Achievement Award\, in recognition of his singular contribution to the develoment of Irish traditional music. Cairdeas na bhFidléirí recently released a double CD\, Drimalost and Beyond\, featuring over 70 tracks of music and chat\, from Danny’s 1960s London scene to the present day.  \nDenise Blake is a regular contributor to Sunday Miscellany.  Her collections\, Take a Deep Breath and How to Spin Without Getting Dizzy\, are published by Summer Palace Press. Her poem\, Invocation\, was recently published in The Irish Times.  She is Literary Curator for Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festival. Denise facilitates Creative Writing programmes in schools and with adult groups.\nOlive Travers grew up in Fermanagh and forty years ago floated with the river Erne to Donegal. There\, as well as being a mother and grandmother\, she has been a teacher\, a psychologist\, an author\, a trainer and a creative writing facilitator. Her writing has featured widely in print and broadcast media including The Irish Times and RTE’s Sunday Miscellany.\n \nAmy Gillen is a prodigious young musical talent from Bridgetown\, Laghey.\nA classical flautist and mutiple Feis Ceoil Dublin\, Feis Sligo and Feis Doire competition and bursary award winner\, she is currently studying Music Performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. This summer\, she was invited to participate in the prestigiuos\, annual James Galway Flute Festival and Masterclass event in Switzerland.\n  \nSeamie O’Dowd is a renowned guitarist and singer from Sligo. A one-time  member of the hugely successful traditional band Dervish\, and presently part of much-in-demand Mairtín O’Connor Band\, Seamie is equally well respected for his blues and oldtime music interpretations\, both in his own solo work and in his collaborations with Cathy Jordan and Rick Epping in another Sligo-based band\, The Unwanted.      \nMartin McGinley is a well-known Donegal journalist and fiddle-player. In a varied career\, he has worked as a television and radio reporter with BBC Northern Ireland and has edited both the Derry Journal and the Donegal Democrat newspapers. Martin has presented television and radio programmes on traditional music for the BBC and RTE\, and as a performer he has toured across Europe and North America. Most recently\, he made his acting debut as Giovanni in Bread and Roses Theatre Company’s excellent production of Dario Fo’s play\, Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!\, seen at An Grianán Theatre\, Letterkenny in July and at The Abbey Arts Centre\, Ballyshannon\, as part of the Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festival.  \nColette Ní Ghallchóir has published two volumes of Gaelic poetry\, Idir Dhá Ghleann and Na Sióga i Lag na hAltóra\, and is widely anthologised at home and abroad. A native of the Big Glen of Glenties\, Colette trained as a primary school teacher\, working in Dublin\, Monaghan\, Donegal\, and in the summer of 2009\, in Addis Abeba\, Ethiopia. A bilingual collection of her poetry\, The Last Look / An tAmharc Deireannach \, was published by Arlen House in 2014. \nJoe Brennan is a storyteller and writer who grew up in Wexford and now lives in Ramelton. He has travelled throughout the world telling stories. He has written a number of successful plays for children\, including Star Boy\, an early years theatre show without words. He is a former Childrens’ Curator at Kilkenny Arts Festival. He is the author of Donegal Folk Tales and director of Ramelton Storytelling Festival. \nDave McHugh is an award winning blues guitarist\, and a recipient of the Patrick Semple Medal for Irish Folklore from University College Dublin. He is currently working on a collection of short stories. He has performed in Ballyshannon on a number of occasions as a guest of the town’s annual Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival. \n
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LOCATION:Ballyshannon\, Co. Donegal\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Music,Theatre
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