To mark the 40th anniversary of the death of West Co. Clare uilleann piper, tin-whistle player and singer Willie Clancy we hear again a documentary programme “Lashings of Music” with contributions from friends, family and admirers and excerpts from radio interviews done by Willie in the early 1970s
Named after a famous traditional Irish tune, The Rolling Wave is a sharp ear and a close eye on the world of traditional and folk music in Ireland.
Sunday, 10.00pm on RTÉ Radio 1
Also, congratulations to: Mícheál Ó Dubháin of Longford and Bernadette Wynne of Dún Laoghaire, both of whom win copies of the RTÉ DVD “Come West Along the Road – Volume IV”.
Our April competition is for 2 copies of the new CD by Emer Mayock, Mick O’Brien and Aoife Ní Bhriain “Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts”. The question is: Who wrote the song “Dirty Old Town”?
