Arena Friday 15 February 2019

On Friday's Arena with Seán Rocks, Kate Brennan Harding & Brian Boyd review new music from Paul Weller, Nadine Shah & Khruangbin ,The Stinging Fly, celebrates its 60th edition, amongst the writers are novelist Louise Nealon & short story writer Wendy Erskine And Galway Film Fleadh, Breaking Ice director Jason Branagan talks about his documentary which tells the story of the first Irish bobsleigh team to go to the Olympics.

Arena

Daily arts and popular culture show

Keywords

Arena, Sean Rocks

Xuefei Yang, a guest at Ireland's Chinese New Year celebrations 2019

Chinese classical guitarist Xuefei Yang chats about choosing the guitar as an instrument and marrying her style with traditional Chinese music; she performs at the Chinese New Year Festival in Ireland

Further details: www.dublinchinesenewyear.com

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Xuefei Yang, Chinese New Year

"Grá & Eagla", a documentary by Áine Gallagher

Comedian Áine Gallagher, whose documentary "Grá & Eagla" looks at our love, and fear of, the Irish language; it will screen at the Mother Tongues Festival in Galway and Dublin in the coming month

Further details: https://mothertonguesfestival.com/

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Áine Gallagher, Grá & Eagla, Mother Tongues Festival

Album reviews

Zara Hedderman and Alan Corr review "Bright Night Flowers" from John Fratelli, "Hello Happiness" from Chaka Khan and "MDRN LV" from Picture This

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John Fratelli, Chaka Khan, Picture This, Zara Hedderman, Alan Corr

Music Played on the Show

Sword Dance

Xuefei Yang (Guitar)