Music, Entertainment and Art (16)
Neil Diamond, Skerries 100, Dr John Hinds, Party & Ice Cream
Skerries 100 2015Last week end was planned from a long time back. Loreto and I were going to the Neil Diamond concert (again) in the 3Arena and then off to Skerries to stay with her sister for the motorbike races. The Skerries 100 is a road racing circuit on tiny narrow roads where the bikes reach speeds in excess of 250 kph. It has been running since 1946. Tommy & Annette live on the hairpin on the course and it gives us a great vantage point. You can read another article on the 2012 racing here.
The Dubliners Biography - Fifty years of Drunken Nights, the Old Triangle and Lovely Lassies.
Written by Robert Tallent"The Dubliners had re-energised and refreshed
Ireland’s unique musical heritage." (President Mary McAleese)
The Dubliners 1984 onwards. Jim McCann, Paddy reilly, Ronnie Drew, Eamonn Campbell, John Sheahan, Barney McKenna and Sean CannonRonnie Drew was an English teacher in 1961 when he returned to Dublin from Spain where he had been learning the guitar. He used to sing, play guitar and tell stories at parties. His voice was described “like coke being crushed under a door”. Comedian John Molloy asked him to warm up the audience at his Gaiety Theatre show. Ronnie brought Barney McKenna, a superb tenor banjo player, with him. The lads then met every Friday night in Dublin’s O’Donoghue’s Pub on Merrion Row. Luke Kelly had just returned from England and student Ciaran Bourke joined them. The rest, as they say, is history, and to this day, the music has never stopped in O’Donoghue’s.
And the Bells are ringing out for Christmas Day part 4 - VIDEOS 1945 to 1961
Written by Robert TallentAll-time Favourite Christmas Songs, yours and mine!
Christmas Number Ones
VIDEOS - 1945 to 1961
And the Bells are ringing out for Christmas Day part 4 VIDEOS - 1962 to 1978
Written by Robert TallentAll-time Favourite Christmas Songs, yours and mine!
VIDEOS - 1962 to 1978
Christmas Number Ones
And the Bells are ringing out for Christmas Day part 4 VIDEOS - 1979 to 1995
Written by Robert TallentAll-time Favourite Christmas Songs, yours and mine!
VIDEOS - 1979 to 1995
Christmas Number Ones
And the Bells are ringing out for Christmas Day part 4 - VIDEOS 1996 to 2012
Written by Robert TallentAll-time Favourite Christmas Songs, yours and mine! Videos
1996 to 2012
Christmas Number Ones
And the Bells are ringing out for Christmas Day part 4
Written by Robert Tallent21st December 2013
All-time Favourite Christmas Songs, yours and mine!
Please be patient. It may take a bit longer to open this week
because there are over 70 videos in it.
ChristmasThis is the final of our four part series,
All-time Favourite Christmas Songs, yours and mine!
And the Bells are ringing out for Christmas Day part 3
Written by Robert Tallent
Lily-Mae-with her mum Jude and uncle paul
This time last year I wrote about Lily-Mae Morrison. Here is the text.
And the Bells are Ringing out for Christmas Day – number two.
Written by Robert TallentYour all-time Favourite Carols and Hymns as voted by you.
christmas carols and hymnsArticle number one is here
This is number 2 in the series of articles on Christmas songs. I’ve got a lot of responses. Thank you one and all. I’ll try to include one from everyone.
This week, I’m including Christmas Carols as well as songs in general because I got a lot of requests for them. I’m taking some old classics that some artists have put their own twist on them.
And the Bells are Ringing out for Christmas Day Part 1 of 4
Written by Robert TallentAll-time Favourite Christmas Songs, yours and mine!
Merry Christmas
I’ve decided to do a list of my all time favourite Christmas songs over the coming weeks complete with videos. This week consists of some of them and others are from friends and people I’ve asked.
