Miscellany 50 Saturday 4 July 2020
Miscellany50 is a celebratory radio festival weekend of short writing and music produced to salute fifty years on air in 2018 of Sunday Miscellany, RTÉ Radio 1’s iconic programme. Five concerts each captured a decade between 1968 and 2018 and were introduced by writers including Mary O’Malley, Joseph O’Connor and Lisa McInerney.
Miscellany50 offered a feast of music and song to savour – some specially commissioned to premier over the weekend – from artists including Donnacha Dennehy, Kate Ellis, Jennifer Walshe, Michael Holohan and Niall Valelly.
Throughout the weekend The Cube downstairs in the Project played host to Miscellany50’s Listening Lounge. Here there was free access to a choice of content from Sunday Miscellany’s eclectic archive from classic contributors across the decades such as Maeve Binchy, Benedict Kiely, Sam McAughtry, Nuala O’Faolain and Anthony Cronin.
Miscellany50’s concerts were recorded and produced for broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 and were broadcast in July and August 2019 with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
Miscellany50 was a celebratory radio festival weekend of short writing and music produced to salute fifty years on air since 1968 of Sunday Miscellany. On this programme you heard:
Setting the Scene 1998-2007 by Colin Murphy
The Crest of a Wave (1998) by John MacKenna
Ready for 2000 (1999) by Honor Clynes
2000 A Space Odessy (2000) by Stephen James Smith
Be the Change (2001) by Barbara Scully
Orange over Green (2002) by Karl O'Neill
Music and song on the programme was:
Shane Sullivan sang The Curragh of Kildare
Conor Linehan (piano) Jacques Ibert: La Petit An Blanc
Cormac Begley (concertina) The Yellow Tinker Set
Malachy Robinson (double base)and Dermot Dunne (piano accordion), the theme from Cinema Paradiso by Morricone
Síle Denvir and Barry Kerr (guitar and vocals)Those Were The Days.
The Curragh Of Kildare
Shane Sullivan
3:18
Le Petit Ane Blanc
Conor Linehan
1:53
The Yellow Tinker
Cormac Begley
4:11
Cinema Paradiso
Dermot Dunne / Malachy Robinson
3:31
Those Were The Days
Síle Denvir / Barry Kerr
3:10