Johnny McCallion’s association with Derry Feis was both as an Irish dancing competitor and for many years afterwards as a stage steward who was front and centre when the most prestigious dancing titles were decided.
Marie-Louise Muir has been both the voice and face for arts programming on BBC Northern Ireland for many years. Her obvious wealth of knowledge is effortlessly related to the public in a calm, reassuring and confident tone that is surely seen as a gift by her employers and is perhaps the envy of her counterparts across the broadcast industry.
With the much anticipated centenary of Feis Doire Colmcille now just a few weeks away, a CD of songs that have been feis standards over the past 100 years is no.
Margaret Keys has performed for Pope Francis, Barack and Michelle Obama. She has shared a stage with one of her musical idols Andrea Bocelli, and Aretha Franklin on the same night. Added to that she has appeared on Broadway, London’s West End, won the New York Artist Award and the BBC Fame Academy Bursary.
A blue plaque was unveiled at the weekend to a former Derry school principal and music teacher regarded as one of Ireland s most prolific and gifted composers. .