Culture Night on RTÉ One will entail a special hour of television with a curated array of exclusives.
Denise Chaila anchors the show from The Round Room in Dublin’s Mansion House as she interweaves the line-up of exceptional one-off performances.
David Gray makes a voyage to Sceilg Mhichíl in the company of his longtime friend Colm Mac Con Iomaíre. This is a trip that David has dreamed about for decades, a place that has loomed so large in his imagination that he named his last album after it and painted it for the album cover. “It was nothing short of magical to be there”, gushed David after the filming.
Also featured on this celebration are Leitrim’s Edwina Guckian and adopted sons Mohammad Syfkhan and Ultan O’Brien providing the soundtrack for dancing at the crossroads in Effrinagh.
The show also features a celebration of punk from Derry, hair raising aerial circus mastery from Ballydehob in West Cork and a treetop display of street dancing from Avondale in Wicklow.
All of this is interspersed with a series of orchestral explorations with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra helmed by conductor David Brophy with special guests vocalists Villagers, Niamh Regan, New Jackson and Joe Chester with Gemma Hayes.
