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Radio Tallaght Highlights Slideshow

Enjoy a slide show of Radio Tallaght's highlights accompanied by edited audio highlights.

Promoting Diversity

A panel discussion hosted by the Irish Traveller Movement represented by Damien Walshe. The Irish Traveller Movement (ITM) is a national network of organisations and individuals working within the Traveller community.

ITM was established in 1990 and now has over eighty Traveller organisations from all parts of Ireland in its membership. The Irish Traveller Movement consists of a partnership between Travellers and settled people committed to seeking full equality for Travellers in Irish society. This partnership is reflected in all of the structures of ITM. More info:http://www.itmtrav.ie/

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From a different angle

This time Izabela Barber is interviewing professor Maciej Smolenski. Don't be fooled by his British accent! Maciej Smolenski was born in Poland in 1931 where his father Jozef Smolenski was working for Polish military intelligence. At the age of 8 his family fled Poland because of the World War II, the family eventually settled in England. After 35 years he was offered a post of singing professor in Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. It's been 35 years since coming to Tallaght. Professor's talking about his life, opera singing career, Irish-Polish Society and the book about his father “Belina's Eighth Cavalryman” – a broad publication of Jozef Smolenski's memoirs, letters, documents and pictures. At the end professor Smolenski sings a traditional Polish Christmas carol.

On the 10th of January the Polish community in Dublin will celebrate the 18th Finale of
“Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy”. The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity  is the biggest and most prosperous charity organization in Poland. Its objectives are saving children's lives, health promotion and education in the field of preventive treatment. From 1993 to 2006 alone, The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity has collected and spent over $65 mln for saving lives.

Join us, help the great cause and have lots of fun!

Date: 10.01.2009 (Sunday)
Venue: The Living Room & Fibbers Magees (off O’Connell Street, Dublin City Centre)
Start: 2 pm
Entry: FREE

Programme: 3 music stages, 2 neighboring clubs, rock-jazz-funk-and reggae, music live, art and craft gallery, delicacies from all over the World, games for kids, lottery, auctions, salsa – face painting – urban DJs – spot prizes – rock – drums – jewelery – cabaret – lots of surprises



See You there!

A Christmas cheer

The 

Hallelujah Gospel Choir

Cooking with Jimmy

This time Jimmy will teach us how to cook a fantastic, stress free Christmas meal.

Khaldoon Naber - When Does Creativity Start?

In conversation with hree young people discussing their creativity, when did it start, in what form and their experiences in real life and how it helped in shaping their creativity.

Creativity in business and creating business

Ralph McGarry and guests Peter Byrne and Nicola Mountford discuss creativity from a business standpoint.

And on that note - Shane O'Fearghail - songs from the suburbs

The final broadcast of the series, Shane is talking to local musicians Kenneth Usher, Cal O'Riley and Neil McCarthy.

WE ARE READY FOR THE LAST BROADCAST FROM 2009.

Listen to our previous broadcasts mixes

program mix no.1


program mix no.2


program mix no.3

The Big Scream - Tallaght

DJ Challenge with Edel and Graham

Tallaghtfornia Dreaming

Today, Graham Sharpe presents in live session the local band Fusion Family

Musicology featuring H.W.C.H.

It all kicked off on Friday 16th October, continued on Saturday & finished up on Sunday. Hard Working Class Heroes (HWCH) is an independent showcase festival for Irish bands & musicians.  Over the 3 days 100 bands played in 6 different venues in the city. It’s not only about gigs There was also a photography exhibition, industry sessions & for the first time this year some of the acts took to the streets & performed at venues around the city centre

If you want to get more information or listen to some music from bands performing at the HWCH you can check out http://www.hwch.net/  or the HWCH twitter page http://twitter.com/HWCH09 


HWCH and The City

Hard Working Class Heroes And The City saw acts who performed at the festival take to the streets, record stores, bookshops and a few surprise venues across Dublin city centre. These special performances took the form of free acoustic gigs over the course of the three days of the festival were a highlight for fans of the best music Ireland has to offer.
The gigs all took place in the daytime, so as well as seeing bands in Dublin's top venues at night we could also check them out in more intimate surroundings in daylight hours.

Also Speed sessions, panel sessions & discussions took place in the Button Factory on Saturday and Sunday morning. These were presented & attended by industry pros from Ireland & abroad (Alison Curtis / TODAY FM, Paul McLoone / TODAY FM,Harry Martin / DOMINO, Jenny Huston / 2FM, Niall Byrne / NIALLER9 / STATE.IE, Sinéad Ní Mhórdha / PHANTOM 105.2 & many others). During these sessions music industry representatives gave artists advice & information to help them with their careers.

Identity Parade

the exciting Dublin five-piece, present an infectious blend of indie rock - powerful, upbeat and energetic music, creating a new refreshing sound and vibe. “Impressive Group, Impressive Sound”, Dave Robinson, Founder of Stiff Records and Former Island Records Head.
New Single "Kicking Stones" out 09 Oct
“These Dublin newbies are smart, confident, and – that rarest of attributes in a straight-up indie rock outfit – interesting”. Hotpress ´09
Identity Parade came together in 2006 and spent two years playing, writing and being a band, whilst building a strong reputation with their invigorating live performances (playing alongside Republic Of Loose, The Blizzards, The Coronas and Director) to name a few. Identity Parade spent most of 2008 recording their debut album due to be released in Oct 09. The album has been completed by the bands Producer John Turps in Dublin @ Asylum Studios with Mixing Engineer, Liam Mulvaney.
The album project has been recorded on location at Bermingham House Tuam Co Galway, a safe haven for Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull in the late 60´s, Asylum Studios in Dublin and 147 studios, also in Dublin.
The bands new single ‘COLLETTE COLLAR’ “With haunting keys, delightfully drone-y vocals and wizardly manipulation of tempo, ‘Collette Collar’ sounds one-part White Stripes, two-parts Foo Fighters” HOTPRESS September 09 Single of the Forthnight.
Collette Collar reached No15 in the Irish Charts on Fri Aug 21st, No1 in the Irish download.ie Charts and No3 in the physical Charts. This is the bands 2nd Irish download.ie No1 in 3 months. (Identity parade were the only Irish Artist in the IRMA single charts for that 2 week period)
As a bonus for the fans the video of “OOH OOH” the debut single was included on the “COLLETTE COLLAR” CD single disc. Both videos can be viewed on the bands sites or on Cashmeremedia´s YouTube site. (search, cashmeremedia).
“OOH OOH” the debut single from the album entered the Irish Charts on May 29th at No.33 (the only Independent act in the top 50 and only other Irish Artist along with U2). The single was also No.1 in the Download.ie Charts and went straight in at No.8 in the CD Single physicals.
On Identity Parade´s video for the first single “OOH OOH” and “COLLETTE COLLAR”. "We are very proud of the collaboration between Identity Parade and Cashmere Media. They are two of the finest music video's we have created and the youtube response reflects this." Tony Callaly, Cashmere Media.

“Collette Collar” the video (shot in Windmill lane Studios Dublin) is also on YouTube and has been screened on TG4 in Ireland and both videos are to be screened in 69 O2 shops nationwide throughout Ireland from September.The 3rd single “Kicking Stones” is due for release October 9th. Song samples from the album are on www.myspace.com/identityparade or www.identityparade.net for links to FACEBOOK and all band sites.

AND ON THAT NOTE

Radio Tallaght presenter Shane O'Fearghail from local band Caruso is in live session with singer - song writer Thom Moore from Pumpkinhead and Cork based Congolese jazz musician Niwel Tsumbu.

Thom Moore was born on December 6, 1943, in California, the third son of a heavy-equipment operating engineer from the island of Santa Catalina, off Los Angeles. His mother, who was by nature a romantic and a reader of Isak Dinesen and Lawrence Durrell, persuaded her husband to take employment in East Africa and the Middle East, so he spent his formative years in Ethiopia (1950-53) and Lebanon (1955-61).

After graduating from the American Community School in Beirut, he entered the U.S. Navy and served three years as a journalist on the staff of the Pacific Fleet commander in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He entered the University of California, Los Angeles, after getting out of the Navy in 1965, not soon enough to avoid service in Vietnam. He took a bachelor's degree Magna cum laude in Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1969 and a master's in 1970.

He moved to Ireland in 1971, settling near Sligo in the northwest of that country. He formed the band Pumpkinhead in 1973, performing original material and Irish traditional music. Their only recording was released in 1975, the very first release (LUN-001) of the Bothy-Band house label Mulligan, but the band itself was dissolved a year later. He then founded a new group, Midnight Well, which also recorded in Ireland with Mulligan Records (LUN-011) in 1977. Vicissitudes of various shapes and sizes ensued at this point, among them his divorce from his first wife in 1978 and the breakup of Midnight Well shortly after. He returned to California in 1979 at the behest of his manager, Paul McGuinness, but instead of furthering his musical career, he found himself an instructor of English grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary at a machine-stenographers' school in Van Nuys, a position he held until July 1987. The only explanation that suffices for this turn of affairs is that his material is probably not appropriate to most existing American markets.

Then the looming Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty (1988) convinced him to refresh his Russian language capabilities, which he did courtesy of the U.S. Navy Reserve, after which he went to work for the newly formed On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA) as an interpreter-escort for Soviet inspectors coming through Travis Air Force Base in northern California. But the entire period he was in California in the 1980s he was writing songs and performing weekly with an Irish-music band, Train to Sligo. One of his songs from this period, The Crooked Road (Carolina Rua), was made popular by the Irish singer Mary Black in the summer of 1989, and he decided to return to Ireland and resume his musical career in the fall of that year. Fate intervened again in the form of an offer of a job as an interpreter-inspector at the INF permanent-monitoring site in Votkinsk, a manufacturing city in the Udmurt Autonomous Republic, on the European side of the Ural Mountains in what is now once again Russia. Not wanting either to give up this opportunity to live and work in Russia nor his intention to return to music in Ireland, he spent as much as possible of his frequent time off from the Votkinsk job in music circles in Ireland.

Fate again intervened when he fell in love with and married Lyubov Gennadyevna Koroleva, a Russian interpreter-escort that he worked with, and perforce quit the restrictive circumstances of the government job, finding employment in 1993 as a professor of English at the Udmurt National University in Izhevsk. He continued this practice of working in Russia and playing music in Ireland until his removal back to Ireland with his new family in November, 1995. His creative work, which he considers more literary than musical, shows the distinctive influence of the various countries and cultures of his experience. But the most serious influence of his life has been and will always be the rich instrumental-music tradition of Ireland, upon which he bases an ever-increasing amount of his work.

click here to visit Thom's page

Niwel is the fifth child of a family of six, born in 1982 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex Zaire). Growing up in Kinshasa he was a shy boy and devoted himself to school, until one day his brother Coco Ngoma brought a guitar home which he used when he played with a local band. A week later Niwel's cousin Papy Makaya who taught him his first piece on the guitar was amazed with the sixteen year old's ability to learn and play his homeland music- Soukous and Rhumba.
Three months later his schoolbag was under his bed and the guitar took its place: instead of studying he stayed up all night playing the guitar; went to school with one copybook and no pen, humming melodies and thinking of the fingering on the guitar.
Niwel's mother Georgina was crying and blaming Coco for Niwel losing path, as she thought her clever son would become an engineer or lawyer. And that's when the guitar was banned from the house. However this did not stop the seventeen year old, but opened up doors for him to go out and meet other musicians and play with them.
Niwel still did not own a guitar so he borrowed his friend's and had to climb over the back wall and sneak it into his house. He would then lock himself into his room and play for the day.
He was then introduced to Crispin Ngoy: a very talented musician who passionately taught Niwel jazz. This became a way of discovering many other types of music.
Niwel's love and passion for different kinds of music and instruments increased more and more, and so at the age of seventeen he secretly enrolled himself into a music college for a year. Niwel wanted to play the saxophone but the school only had one which was broken - this however did not stop him.
Niwel still did not have his own guitar, and after walking an hour to school, he would then walk an hour and a half to watch his friend Dju rehearsing with a jazz band, then walk two hours home, drop his schoolbag, walk another thirty minutes to borrow a guitar, and then walk a further forty minutes to Crispin's house for a jam. On school holidays he would get up in the mornings and be in Crispin's house for nine and play until the night.
Niwel moved to Ireland in 2004 where he quickly made friends with the Irish music scene. He began playing with many local bands and formed the groups Sumu, Jazzmu and Motema.
He has played on many stages- from diversity, cultural awareness and charity gigs- to both the Cork and Bray Jazz Festivals, the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire 2005, and the Spiegeltent for the last two years in Cork.
Niwel has supported the likes of Kila, The Wailers, Horace Andy from Massive Attack, and Cameroon virtuoso bass player Richard Bona as part of the Bulmers World Music Festival in Cork.


click here to visit Niwel's website

For further information on Caruso visit www.caruso.ie

On Air now: Celebrating Diversity

Avril Bailey, and guests

October's broadcast theme - Shared Neighbourhoods

RADIO TALLAGHT 99.1FM A VOICE OF COMMUNITY


Shared Neighbourhoods

Radio Tallaght October broadcast discusses cultural and ethnical diversity and the role we can all take to promote a more inclusive and intercultural society for Tallaght. Shared Neighbourhoods will celebrate and explore diversity based on the underpinning principles of interaction, equality, understanding and respect.
The weekend broadcast will consist of different programme strands that will stimulate dialogue and debate between individuals and communities and examine the issues around living in intercultural communities. The programming strands will include debate, drama, interviews, spoken word, music and lecture formats.

Radio Tallaght Shared Neighbourhoods will broadcast live on Saturday 17th October and Sunday 18th October from 11 am to 6 pm. If you are interested in getting involved in, and sharing your ideas with, Radio Tallaght, please contact us at studio@radiotallaght.com. / or phone Tallaght Community Arts on 01 452 8180

Amnesty International Programme

At 2.30pm John McGauley from Amnesty hosts a debate exploring the consequences the environmental crisis has on Human Rights. This is a part of the Radio Tallaght Amnesty radio series.

Khaldoon and friends

A journey through cultures and generations (Irish, Arabic and African) with Khaldoon and friends.

Marie Nolan

My story - Great Irish Voices...The Three Tenors

Two members of Ireland's very own and hughly successful "Three Tenors" trio; Declan Kelly and David Martin together with their concert promoter John Conway are in live session with Marie Nolan.

Musical Reminders with Michael Coleman

18 Oct.2009

Based on this weekend's broadcast theme, Michael brought you, the listeners another superb compilation of tracks that wil reflect what means  a good "Shared Neighbourhood".

Michael Coleman is on air now, presenting a musical journey that may prompt us to be mindful of what we can learn and experience from knowing and respecting our environment.

check out Michael's webpage:  http://www.michaelcoleman.ie/

Tell Us A New Story About Our Relations

Using music, poetry and song, Ann Louise Gilligan will bring us a philosophical reflection on the need to re-imagine our relationship with the earth and all living beings.

Cooking With Jimmy

Jimmy Dunne, Chef and proprietor of the Interval Bistro in Tallaght is exchanging traditional recipes from Ireland and Transylvania with Cristi

Previously, Jimmy teached us how to cook delicious dishes using organically grown vegetables by Michael Fox in the allotment in Tymon Park, Tallaght. Listen to his program

My Culture - Patricia Baker and Rosena Hand

Radio Tallaght Book Club in partnership with County Library Tallaght discussing "The Senator's Wife" by Sue Miller and a review of children's books by the Junior Book Club.

The Life of Miley with Laura Ryder and Andrew Moran

Spreading the message of sustainable future in a light-hearted way, and exploring cultural and ethnical diversity with the help of a fairytale, music and some sound effects.

Grow it, Cook it, Eat it - presented by Michael Lemass

For starters this program hears from Richard Burton who is a nutritional therapist based in Bray.  Richard explains how important diet and lifestyle are in staying healthy and explains that our genes perhaps aren’t as important in determining health as was once thought. Richard gives us some basic tips on what plants to grow in the garden that are healthy for us to eat. Richard is a director and founder of The Irish Institute of Nutrition and Health which is a clinic and also a college offering courses in the field of holistic nutrition. www.iinh.net
Richard’s interview establishes one of the pillars of this series in terms of thinking of food as medicine and not just something tasty to fill a big hungry void.
So go and buy some seeds instead of pills! 
If you just want to hear Richard Burton’s piece: Richard Burton, Nutritional Therapist
Then for the main course we visit FEAST which is a “growing, cooking and eating project” happening in St Annes School, Fettercairn in Tallaght.

The enthusiastic 9 year olds of 4th class are going to grow all the veggies organically for a big feast they are going to have when they come back after the summer in September.  Its the perfect project to visit for this series what with all the growing, cooking, and eating and more veggies than you can shake a big shtick at!!!
We hear from some of the school children as well as their teacher in the garden Phil Wheal and from Tony Fagan, director of Tallaght Community Arts.
You can hear just the Feast piece here: FEAST, St Anne’s Primary School
If you click on the links the audio will play in the browser or if you right click on the links you can download the sound file to your computer(Control click on an Apple Mac)
And for desert?
Well that course is you! We have built this website to show some of the things we are talking about on the radio but also we want to hear from you the listener!!
We are very interested in getting feedback from you so please feel free to leave a comment or perhaps some suggestions for food stories in upcoming shows?!
Thanks for visiting and do come back again for more programs and photos,
Bon appetit!
Michael

http://growitcookiteatit.ie/

Tallaghtfornia Dreaming with Graham Sharpe

Scarecrow Disco

Scarecrow Disco is the new name chosen for Dublin Rock and Roll band The Murder of Crows. After being together since school, and playing lots of gigs to lots of friends, they realized that the music had changed so much that it needed a new outlook, and a new name. Since the start of this year, the band has been experimenting, writing and recording in a house in Dunboyne where two of the lads live. Looking forward to summer and the festival season, they plan to get back gigging, backed up by an EP release, and finish their debut album. If teddy bears can picnic, scarecrows can disco.

visit their webspace here: http://www.myspace.com/scarecrowd

The Glor Sessions

A discussion on poetry and its relevance between Cuirt poetry slam winner Stephen-James Smith and Henessy award short listed poet and writer Colm Keegan - both local writers. 

And On That Note

Shane O'Fearghail (Caruso) and guests

Jack L

Margaret Healy

                                                            and Fiach Moriarity

• Check out Jack L's official page here: http://www.jacklukeman.com/
• Check out Margaret's page here:  http://www.myspace.com/margarethealy
• Check out Fiach's official page: http://www.fiach.net/