BBC Radio Ulster celebrates Folk Awards coming to Northern Ireland
BBC Radio Ulster celebrates Folk Awards coming to Northern Ireland for the first time
The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards are coming to Belfast for the first time on Wednesday 4 April 2018.
BBC Radio Ulster will be broadcasting live from the Waterfront Hall between 6.30pm and 10pm, with the awards ceremony taking place from 7.30pm to 10pm. The awards will also be Broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
In the run-up to the event, BBC Radio Ulster will be broadcasting a series of special and themed programmes to mark the occasion..
On Saturday 31 March, Your Place & Mine (8am – 9pm) presenter Anne Marie McAleese meets Joe ‘Banjo’ Diamond – character, banjo player, maker and proud owner of a vast collection of traditional music on 78s.
Also on Saturday 31, The John Toal Show (11am – 12noon) welcomes into the studio mothers and sons who are engrossed in traditional music – Jack Warnock is nominated in the Young Folk Award category, and is joined in studio by his mother, Una.
Cushendun’s Ciaran O’Kane, singer, box and bouzouki player also joins John, with his mother, Helen, a renowned singer in the Glens of Antrim.
On Sunday Sequence (April 1, 8.30am – 10.15am), among presenter Róisín McAuleys’ guests will be Fergus O’Hare who will discuss the grit of protest songs.
Folk Club (Sunday April 1, 7pm – 9pm) with Lynette Fay, will feature interviews with Dónal Lunny, recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as a feature on the Armagh Pipers Club, recipients of the Good Tradition Award for the club’s ongoing commitment to the preservation and promotion of traditional music for over 50 years.
From Monday 2 April to Friday 6 April, from 11.55am – 12noon, BBC Radio Ulster will broadcast Love Letters to Folk, during which well-known people and musicians (Colm Sands, Dougie MacLean, Peggy Seeger, Bill Wolsey and Moya Brennan) talk about what folk music means to them. The programmes will be repeated each day from 11.55pm – 12midnight.Besides, testosterone is also responsible for bone-growth and formation of muscles. why not find out more ordine cialis on line
Classical Connections, Sean Coyle, Hugo Duncan, Kerry McLean, and The Late Show with Eve Blair will all add an extra folk track or two to their playlists for the week.
On the afternoon of the event (Wednesday 4 April) between 1pm and 4pm in the performance area of Victoria Square shopping centre, John Toal will present a free outdoor showcase of local folk and traditional musicians of all ages.
Special guests and well-known faces and voices will also pop up during the afternoon.
That same evening (Wednesday April 4) from 6.30pm – 7.30pm, Lynette Fay, along with her house band, Cúig, will be broadcasting live from the pre-awards reception at the Waterfront Hall, and talking to nominees as well as guest presenters and attendees.
Following the ceremony, Ralph McLean will be keeping the party going on BBC Radio Ulster from 9pm – 10pm, and catching up with winners, presenters and guests as they enjoy the celebrations.
The awards will be simulcast on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Ulster from 7.30pm – 9pm, and selected highlights will be available to watch at bbc.co.uk/radio2.
A television highlights programme will also be broadcast on BBC Two Northern Ireland on Sunday 8 April, 5.30pm (details correct at time of going of press) and will be available on BBC iPlayer following that.