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Newmarket was well represented on Sunday evening s TV schedule last weekend.
After the 6pm news, many of you may have tuned into John Creedon s excellent show, Atlas of Ireland, to see our own Timmy O Connor and Eoin Stan O Sullivan appear on our screens.
The show, in its second series, takes a tour around Ireland exploring towns and places and looking into the meaning of their names. Sliabh Luachra was under analysis in the most recent episode, and Eoin took on the task of explaining the boundaries of an area that is more cultural than geographical.
Timmy played a few tunes and spoke to John about the local music and how he came to it. Some of the area s finest musicians spoke about their passion for the Sliabh Luachra music style, including Scartaglin s Emma O Leary, accordian player Bryan O Leary, Maura O Connor and our own Stan. If you missed out on the show, you can catch it on the RTÉ Player.
Traditional musicians are beginning to discuss what the post-COVID world will sound like once pandemic restrictions are lifted and life begins to return to normality.
But, according to Eoin Stan O Sullivan, the Newmarket-based Musician In Residence for Sliabh Luachra, musicians are considering whether they will be playing more gigs in community halls and other large venue settings rather than pubs when restrictions begin to be relaxed. There are questions whether many pubs will survive the pandemic and whether people will be willing to go back to pubs to hear live music, he said. During last summer, we were planning to organise a series of music events in some of the new digital hubs around Sliabh Luachra and stream them online - but we had to rethink that.
THE pubs have been silent for months now as the echoes of the last Sliabh Luachra polka played with passion at a session have long since died away.
But this weekend the tentative first notes will resound as the rebirth of live traditional music gets underway.
A concert featuring virtuouso accordion player, Bryan O Leary, is being broadcast online to launch the musician s new album, Tranquility in Tureencahill.
This is part of an initiative instigated by Scully s Fest organiser, Eoin Stan O Sullivan, who has just taken up the position of Sliabh Luachra Musician in Residence , a joint venture between Cork, Kerry and Limerick County Councils to promote the music rich region which straddles the three counties.