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An Cúinne Dána

Nell Ní Chróinín Image Name: Nell Ní Chróinín Description: Nell Ní Chróinín - winner of Corn Uí Riada at Oireachtas 2014
Nell Ní Chróinín Image Name: Nell Ní Chróinín Description: Nell Ní Chróinín Copyright: Jon Wright / RTÉ RnaG

Tá tús curtha le séasúr nua cláracha, agus tá an clár ealaíon An Cúinne Dána ar ais, le Tristan Rosenstock sa chathaoir.  Inniu ar an gclár, beidh agallamh aige le Nell Ní Chróinín, atá ar camchuairt ar fud na tíre faoi láthair le Music Network, leis na ceoltóirí Tara Breen, Laoise Kelly agus Josephine Marsh.    As Múscraí do Nell, agus bronnadh an gradam d’Amhránaí na Bliana uirthi sa bhliain 2012.  Bhuaigh sí Corn Uí Riada sa bhliain 2014, agus sa bhliain 2016 thosaigh sí mar amhránaí leis an ngrúpa Danú.  Sa chlár inniu, labhrann sí le Tristan Rosenstock faoina cuid amhránaíochta.

The autumn season has started on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, and arts programme An Cúinne Dána is back, presented by Tristan Rosenstock.  Today on the programme, he will interview singer Nell Ní Chróinín, currently on a Music Network tour across the country with Tara Breen, Laoise Kelly and Josephine Marsh.  Nell is from the Cork Gaeltacht area of Múscraí, and was named TG4 Singer of the Year 2012, and won Corn Uí Riada, the most prestigious sean-nós prize in the country, in 2014.  In 2016, Nell joined trad supergroup Danú.  She talks to Tristan today about her singing career.