Séamus Begley and Steve Cooney perform for 'The Pure Drop' audience.
Accordion player Séamus Begley (Séamus Ó Beaglaoich) who is from the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht, accompanied by Irish Australian guitarist Steve Cooney, play a tune from Kerry.
This episode of 'The Pure Drop' was broadcast on 17 September 1990. The presenter is Iarla Ó Lionaird.
The Pure Drop' was an Irish traditional music programme produced by musician and broadcaster Tony MacMahon. The first series was filmed at the height of the summer festival season in 1987, with six of its nine episodes presented by fiddler James Kelly from Óstán Dún an Óir in Ballyferriter, West Kerry. It was first broadcast on 07 January 1988.
Singer Iarla Ó Lionáird took over as presenter for the second, third and fourth series, which were filmed in Cultúrlann na hÉireann, the headquarters of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Monkstown, County Dublin. Fiddler Paddy Glackin presented Series 5 - 9, while fiddler Martin McGinley presented the tenth and final series in 1996. The last episode was broadcast on 25 February 1996.
