The John Kelly Ensemble

John Kelly

Monday-Friday, 2-4pm

Join John and his weekday music ensemble for your essential afternoon's music experience, celebrating diversity with a kaleidoscope of sounds.

John also presents the RTÉ Television arts review programme, The View. Click here for the programme website.

For more about John, click HERE

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Playlist Archive

Click here to access playlists from the previous programmes. Track titles are in bold, album details in italics. If you need more details simply email us.

John Kelly and Hauschka

Thursday November 19th - The John Kelly Ensemble Sessions

Make sure to tune into today's programme, as our special guest in studio is the German pianist and composer Volker Bertelmann, better known to John Kelly Ensemble audiences as Hauschka. Bertelmann is in Ireland to play just two gigs, but before doing so, popped in to talk to John about his music and perform live in studio.

The Hauschka tour performance dates are Thursday 19th November, The Sugar Club, Dublin and Friday 20th November, Triskel at Jury's, Cork. For more details, visit www.note.ie.

PIANO PUZZLERS - WINNER ANNOUNCED

John announced the winner of our Piano Puzzlers live on today's programme. Congratulations to teacher Mairead Berrill, and all the music students of Presentation College, Headford, Co Galway. They are the proud recipients of a piano for their school, courtesy of Pianos Plus and Kawai.

Click the links below to hear the solutions:

Solution to Piano Puzzler 1

Solution to Piano Puzzler 2

Solution to Piano Puzzler 3

Solution to Piano Puzzler 4

Solution to Piano Puzzler 5

Keep in touch with The John Kelly Ensemble...

Now there are even more ways to keep in touch with us online. Get alerts direct to your profile about our gigs, sessions, competitions and upcoming interviews. And if you have some musical recommendations you think we should know about, then get in touch:

Click here to visit The John Kelly Ensemble MySpace page

Click here to visit The John Kelly Ensemble Facebook page

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Maya Homburger and Barry Guy
Photo: Eugene Langan

The John Kelly Ensemble Audio Archive

You asked and we obliged - you can listen back to previous special programmes and special guest interviews here. Featuring music and talk from artists including Nico Muhly, Laurie Anderson, Joby Talbot, Robert Wyatt, Matthew Shipp, Jon Lord and Debashish Bhattacharya. Plus guest presenters including The Wire actors Reg E. Cathey and Clarke Peters and music from our live sessions at the Button Factory and The Village.

Join the The John Kelly Ensemble mailing list!

We've created a mailing list for The John Kelly Ensemble to let you know about special interviews and sessions coming up, and to invite you to future gigs. So if you want to be the very first to hear about any of our upcoming plans, here's how to do it:

Simply email jkensemble@rte.ie with 'Mailing List' in the subject, and we'll add your email address to this illustrious list. And for taking the time to do so, you'll enter a weekly draw to win a very nice John Kelly Ensemble goody bag.

Note: we will not be sharing your details or information with any other organisations or third parties.

The John Kelly Ensemble Gallery

Though we were tempted to call it a Rogue's Gallery, we went for the more obvious name. To access the gallery click here.

You can also see some photos taken at our recent live gig at The Village here.