Capital Irish - 17 April 2022

2022-04-17

Presented by Andy Linton On this week’s Capital Irish, Andy shares some new Irish trad music courtesy of the Faoiseamh project, and muses on the various impacts that this new phase of the pandemic has on our lives here in NZ. We also get to hear some recordings from Richard Tait, who recorded these for the NZ Irish Sessions website. Richard will be the banjo tutor at this year’s Ceol Aneas in Nelson. You can find out more about Coel Aneas, head to www.irishmusic.org.nz and to explore some of the t...

Presented by Andy Linton

On this week’s Capital Irish, Andy shares some new Irish trad music courtesy of the Faoiseamh project, and muses on the various impacts that this new phase of the pandemic has on our lives here in NZ. We also get to hear some recordings from Richard Tait, who recorded these for the NZ Irish Sessions website. Richard will be the banjo tutor at this year’s Ceol Aneas in Nelson. You can find out more about Coel Aneas, head to www.irishmusic.org.nz and to explore some of the tunes from the NZ Irish session you can head over to: https://irish.session.nz/tunes_archive

You can read more about the Faoiseamh project here: Faoiseamh 2022 - The Rolling Wave presents ten new trad tunes

This program was also broadcast on Wellington Access Radio with the support of New Zealand on Air.

Capital Irish has been making programs for the Irish Community in Wellington, New Zealand since 2003.

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