The Late Session: Programme Listings 2005

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Sunday, December 25

Sunday, December 18

Sunday, December 11

Sunday, December 4
Áine's guest tonight is Harry Long, author of the recently-published Walton's Guide to Irish Music.

Sunday, November 27:
Tonight's programme features a concert recorded on Fri. 23 Sept in Cultúrlann na Cille, Gaelscoil na Cille, Ashbourne, Co. Meath. It features 4 musicians who came together to play on the Music Network's Celtic Connections tour. This was a celebration of Celtic traditional music uniting two duos from opposite sides of the Irish Sea - a mixture of Irish and Welsh folk music and song. The Irish musicians were accordionist Josephine Marsh and her regular band-member and mandolin/bouzouki player extraordinaire Declan Corey. The Welsh duo were fiddler Gareth Westacott and melodeon player Guto Dafis, who combine to form the Cardiff-based group Toreth. The Celtic Connections musicians were heard on tour in Ireland in September and in Wales in October.

Sunday, November 20:
Áine's guest tonight is TG4 Traditional Musician of the Year Jackie Daly.

Sunday, November 13:
St. James' Church, Dingle, was the venue for a recent concert to mark the launch of The Arts Council's Deis scheme, which is aimed at encouraging and facilitating the traditional arts community to seek funding from the Arts Council. Tonight's show features highlights from this event.

Sunday, November 6:
A new DVD featuring highlights from the popular RTÉ television series Come West Along The Road has just been released and Áine will be talking to the programme's producer Nicholas Carolan on tonight's show.

Sunday, October 30:
Páraigín Ní Uallacháin has been best known as a singer and collector of traditional songs, but her new CD, Áilleacht, features newly composed material from the Co. Louth performer and she will be Áine's guest on tonight's show.

Sunday, October 23:
Caoimhin Vallely form Armagh has just released a CD of solo piano music and he will be Áine's guest this Sunday night.

Sunday, October 16:
Singe Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola from Inis Oírr is Áine's guest this week, when she will talk about her new CD, Flame of Wine.

Sunday, October 9:
Áine's guests are harpists Cormac de Barra and Anne-Marie O'Farrell, talking about their new duet album, Double Strung.

Sunday, October 2:
Noel Hill has just released his long-awaited second solo album, The Irish Concertina Two, and he is Áine's guest on this week's show.

Sunday, September 25:
Niall Vallely is Áine's guest, talking about the new CD, Buille, which he has just recorded with his brother, Caoimhín, and fellow Armagh musician, Paul Meehan.

Sunday, September 18:
Dublin singer Niamh de Burca, who has just released her debut CD, An Áit a bhfuil do Chroí, will join Áine on tonight's programme.

Sunday, September 11:
Mick Mulcahy and his daughters, Louise and Michelle, from Abbeyfeale, CO. Limerick, will join Áine this week to discuss their new CD, Notes from the Heart.

Sunday, September 4:
Traditional singer Barry Gleeson from Dublin has just launched his 2nd solo album, I Heard A Bird At Dawn, and he will be Áine's guest on this week's show.

Sunday, August 28:
Ciarán Tourish has been a member of Altan for many years, but the Buncrana-born fiddle player has just released his first solo album, Down The Line, and Ciarán will be Áine's guest on the Late Session this Sunday night.

Sunday, August 21:
Sisters Breda and Cora Smyth have travelled the globe with shows such as Lord of the Dance and Feet of Flames but they also took some time out to record a duet album and, more recently, to talk to Áine for this Sunday night's Late Session.

Sunday, August 14:
Colm Gannon was born and grew up in Boston, but has recently returned to live in his parents' home place of Conamara. The accordeon player has also recorded a CD and will join Áine this Sunday night on The Late Session.

Sunday, August 7:
Dublin piper Mikie Smyth has just released his debut solo album and will be Áine's guest this Sunday night

Sunday, July 31:
Detroit-born traditional singer Cathie Ryan is Áine's guest on tonight's show.

Sunday, July 24:
Rosemary Day will join Áine to talk about Oidhreacht an Chláir, a new education initiative for traditional music, based in west Clare

Sunday, July 17:
Inishbofin singer Andrew Murray is Áine's guest on the programme tonight.

Sunday, July 10:
As the Willie Clancy Summer School draws to a close, we will feature music and song recorded during the week in Miltown Malbay.

Sunday, July 3:
The Late Session will broadcast live from Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, at the beginning of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy.

Sunday, June 26:
Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains joins Áine on tonight's show to talk about the band's recent tribute concert to the late Derek Bell, highlights of which have just been released on CD.

Sunday, June 19:
The young Co. Monaghan uilleann piper, Martin McCormack, who has just released his debut solo album,is Áine's guest on tonight's show.

Sunday, June 12:
Tonight's special programme features a concert with flute-player Emer Mayock, guitarist, Donal Siggins, and singer and flautist, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, recorded during the St. Patrick's Festival at the National Concert Hall in March.

Sunday, June 5:
Altan's new CD, Local Ground, has just been released in Ireland and the band's guitarist, Mark Kelly, will be Áine's guest on the Late Session tonight.

Sunday, May 29:
The recently appointed Traditional Arts Specialist with the Arts Council, Liz Doherty, is Áine's guest on the Sunday night's programme

Sunday, May 22:
American fiddle and bouzouki duo Randal Bays and Roger Landes are currently on tour in IReland and will be Aine's guests on this week's show.

Sunday, May 15:
Charlie Lennon will be talking to Áine about the life and music of the late John Gordon, the fiddle player from Co. Fermanagh, whose 1950s recordings have been re-mastered and released on a CD, The Humours of Glendart.

Sunday, May 8:
"Waiting for an Echo" is the latest CD from Solas, and the band's Nenagh-based singer, Deirdre Scanlon will join Áine for this week's programme.

Sunday, May 1:
Kerry sisters Seosaimhín and Caitlín Ní Bheaglaíoch have released an album of songs learnt during their musical childhood in Corca Dhuibhne and Seosaimhín will join Áine on tonight's show to talk about the recording.

Sunday April 24:
Dublin fiddler Paul O'Shaughnesy and Belfast flute player Harry Bradley have teamed up to record a fine duet album, Born For Sport, and Paul and Harry will be Áine's guests on the Late Session this Sunday night.

Sunday, April 17
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, singer, flute and whistle player with Danú is Áine's guest on the Late Session this Sunday night, marking the release of the band's new album, When All is Said and Done.

Sunday April 10

Sunday April 3
Programme cancelled due to the death of His Holiness Pope John Paul II

Sunday March 27
A tribute to Seán Maguire

Sunday March 20
Conamara melodeon player Johnny Connolly recently released his third album, An Mileoidean Scaoilte, and he will be Áine's guest this week on the Late Session.

Sunday March 13
Clár speisialta anocht mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge. Cloisfear ceolchoirm a bhí ar siúl sa Rinn i righ Tionól Ceoil na Rinne an mhí seo caite.

Sunday March 6
Sliabh Luachta accordeon player Paudie O'Connor launched his debut solo album at the Gathering Festival in Killarney last weekend and he is Áine's guest on tonight's Late Session.

Sunday February 27
Andy Morrow ia a young fiddle player from Leitrim who has recently recorded a fine debut CD with West Limerick concertina player Tony O'Connell and Andy is Áine guest on tongiht's show.

Sunday February 20
Áine's guest tonight is Dublin harpist Siobhán Armstrong, who has recently released a CD of music performed on the Irsh wire-strung harp.

Sunday February 13
Jim Carroll and Pat MacKenzie have collected folk songs throughout Ireland and Britain for many years. They recently published a double CD of material recorded by them in west Clare over the past 30 years and they are Áine's guests tonight on the Late Session.

Sunday February 6
West Limerick concertina player Tim Collins is Áine's guest on tonight's programme

Sunday January 30
Maria Corbet and Fiona Walsh from the new band Arcanadh are Áine's guests tonight.

Sunday January 23:
Sligo flute and whistle player Carmel Gunning is celebrating the release of her new Cd, The Sligo Maid, with performances throughout the country and she will be Áine's guest on the Late Session this Sunday night.

Sunday January 16th:
Máire Nic Domhnaill Gairbhí, originally from Roscommon, but living in Dublin for many years, is a researcher of traditional music and its history. She has published three books, the most recent being 'Comhrá na dTonn', a tribute to the great music collectors and composers of past centuries. Máire will be Áine's guest on the Late Session this Sunday night.

Sunday January 9th:
TG4's Young Musician of the Year in 2003, Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, recently released his debut solo album, Ceol an Ghleanna, and the young Gaoth Dobhair fiddle player will be Áine's guest tonight on the Late Session

Sunday January 2nd: