PROGRAMME 6 TX Date: 26/02/16 – 8.30pm RTÉ 1
FLEADH CHEOIL
The final programme in the series from the Sligo Fleadh Cheoil features banjo player Kieran Hanrahan along Sligo man Oisín MacDiarmada on fiddle and harpist Michael Rooney and we look in at the Tutors Concert from the Fleadh’s Summer School Scoil Eigse and finish with The Senior All Ireland Céilí Band Champions, the Shandrum Céilí Band. The programme is presented by John Creedon and Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin.
Overview
Fleadh Cheoil is a series of six television programmes from the Sligo Fleadh Cheoil presented by John Creedon and Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin.
The annual Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann returned to Sligo for a second consecutive year.
The series will showcase a host of musicians and singers who attended the Fleadh including Kieran Hanrahan, Seamus Begley, John Spillane, Oisín MacDiarmada, Michael Rooney, John Wynne, John McEvoy, Mick, Louise and Michelle Mulcahy, Daire Bracken, Tom Doorley, Dylan Foley, Philip Duffy, Liam Kelly, Damien Stenson, Dan Brouder, Angelina Carberry, Leonard Barry, Matt Cunningham, Gerry O’Connor, Martin Quinn and Caitlín Nic Gabhann.
Among the groups featured are Danú, Boys of the Lough, The Unwanted, The Trí Tones, FourWinds, Seven Glens, Cúig, JigJam and LOKI.
The programmes will also include a visit to Scoil Éigse, the Scoil Éigse Tutors Concert and competitions including The Senior Céilí Band Competition.