Portrush Pub Session clip is now on the BBC1 iPlayer!

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You can watch our wee 'Country Tracks' session clip now, on the 

BBC1 iPlayer

The Springhill Bar piece starts at ~ 46.10 Mins.

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Springhill Bar Session, Portrush on TV

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Well, the last 10 minutes or so of 'BBC1's Country Tracks did feature our weekly Springhill Bar Session in Portrush alright.

In the session, you saw a touch of the Scottish influence on the music in this part of the world, with instruments like the Scottish Smallpipes & English Concertina, as well as the more usual Fiddles, Melodeon, Bouzouki, Uilleann Pipes, Harp, & Bodhran.

If you missed it, you can catch it again on Thursday afternoon at 02.50pm on BBC1.

AIter that, you may be able to watch it on the

 BBC1 iPlayer

I'm not sure though, if I'll ever recover from the shame of being 'OUTED' on national TV, as a closet Bodhran Player! ...

.. Oh & I'll probably have to steer well clear of Swedish Fiddle players too, for a while! ;-)

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Springhill Bar Session, Portrush, on Country Tracks 13th Dec.

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I thought you might like to know that there promises to be a wee clip from our weekly Session in the Springhill Bar, Portrush, Co Antrim, at the end of the show, tomorrow morning.

Country Tracks BBC 1 - 11am Sunday 13th December

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2 Video Clips from BBC2's Blas Ceoil

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Here's the sort of Irish Music you can hear, any Friday night in The House of McDonnell, Ballycastle. 

These two video clips of us playing on BBC2s 'Blas Ceoil', in Fermanagh, were recorded a couple of weeks ago.

Ciarán Kelly, Ciarán Curran, and Dick Glasgow play Joe Ryan's Waltz/ Jimí Bhidí Mhicís Waltz for Blas Ceoil series 3.

Ciarán Kelly, Ciarán Curran, and Dick Glasgow play The Cuilcagh Polkas/The Sliabh Lucan Polka for Blas Ceoil series 3.

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If you missed the show last Thursday night on Northern Irish TV, you can still catch it on the:

Blas Ceoil BBC2 iPlayer

Cheers, Dick

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Playing for BBC 2 TVs 'Blas Ceoil' Music Show.

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Last Thursday night in Derrygonnelly, Co. Fermanagh, I had the honour of being recorded for the BBC2 Northern Ireland, with two very fine Fermanagh musicians.

The musicians were Ciaran Kelly on Melodeon & Ciaran Curran on Bouzouki, with meself on Fiddle.  

That episode is to be broadcast at 10pm on Thursday 3rd December.

'Blas Ceoil'

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The old letter!

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When Piper Trevor Stewart joined our Bushmills session, a couple of weeks ago, I told local Scottish Smallpipes player Alan Wade that Trevor was coming up, so he made a point of being there. 

After a while Alan produced an old letter & asked Trevor to look at it. Trevor was rather surprised to say the least, because this old letter had actually been written by Trevor himself. 

He had written to Alan's Dad Sam about Pipes & Piping, as Sam had also been an Uilleann Piper. Alan had found the old letter amongst his father's Piping gear but there was no date on the letter. However, Trevor knew by the Belfast address that he must have sent it, way back in 1969 

........ so that was 40 years ago!

So what were you doing 40 years ago?

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