Info
- Website: http://www.radiofyneside.co.uk
- Join Date: 29/02/08
- Location: Furnace
- Partner: Paul (dives for cover at the sound of : 'I've had an idea.'
- Profile: So many incarnations... critical path analyst, university teacher in media and performing arts, director, editor of Theatre Ireland, broadcast arts critic, Arts Council panellist, news junkie, ruined idealist but still trucking on... Managing Director of Radio Fyneside (to be charity: Fyneside Media Ltd), Project Manager, http://ForArgyll.com
Entertainment
- Movies: Hero (the most visually stunning film ever made), Pulp Fiction, Look At Me
- Music: Billy Bragg (Fav track: The world turned upside down), Leonard Cohen (Joan of Arc - and have you heard 'One of us cannot be wrong'?)
- Books: Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance (R Pirsig), Castles of Steel (R Ludlow), I have drunk ale in the country of the young (poem: WB Yeats)
- Games: Not my bag
- TV: Spitting Image (long lamented, much needed), Coast, Skins, Jonathan Ross
- Sports: Sailing, Skiing, Thinking - and Thinking again
Inspiration
- Place: Inis Saimer Co Donegal (used to live there - first to live there)
- Year: 1968 (well - we tried)
- People: My father (for inventiveness, optimism and courage), Harold Wilson (made politics fun for the first time),Tony Benn (meant what he said and did it as soon as he got the opportunity), Billy Connolly (a genuinely life enhancing spirit), Frank McGuinness (for unparalelled cultural generosity)
- Issue: Community-generated information and communications for Argyll - now - via superfast broadband for all of Scotland
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Recent Posts
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Graeme McNaught - piano recital ,
11 Nov 2008 in Concerts& Events& News
[ November 15, 2008; 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] On Saturday 5th November at 7.30pm Graeme McNaught will give a piano recital at Ardrishaig Public Hall, promoted by Mid Argyll Arts Association. He will play a programme of Mozart, Ronald Stevenson, Beethoven and Schumann.
Graeme McNaught was born in Motherwell and trained first at RSAMD in Glasgow. He went on to train with lfons Kontarsky [...]
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Rare Messiaen piece for Ardrishaig 19th October ,
18 Oct 2008 in Concerts& Events& News
[ October 19, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] A piece of unpublished music, Fantasie, written in 1933 by composer Oliver Messiaen was discovered by Alastair Mitchell when he was teaching in Palestine. There were previously thought to be only two pieces written by Messiaen for violin and piano. Alastair Mitchell and David Finlay will play the piece in their chamber music programme performed [...]
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Busy day - Tabula Rasa Dance Company at 3.00pm and Trio Ecossaise at 7.30pm ,
25 Sep 2008 in Concerts& Events
[ October 25, 2008; ] Both of these performances will be on Saturday 25th October in Ardrishaig Public Hall. Tabula Rasa Dance Company will perform ‘Dilly, Dilly’ - a dance theatre piece, with music, for children at 3.00pm.
Trio Ecossaise - clarinet, ‘cello, piano, at 7.30pm will play a programme of Brahms, Beethoven, Muczynski and duo pieces.
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Piano and violin concert - Peter Evans and Ulrike Fenner ,
04 Sep 2008 in News
Peter Evans and Ulrike Fenner are playing a programme of Grieg, Marina Adams and Cesar Franck, among others, at a concert for the Mid Argyll Arts Association (MAAA) on Saturday 27th September at 7.30pm in Ardrishaig Hall.
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Mull Theatre visit with Macbeth ,
24 Aug 2008 in News
After last years’s very successful visit by Mull Theatre with their gripping ’spooks’ play, Cyprus, the company makes a welcome return with Macbeth on Thursday 11th September. The performance will be in Ardrishaig Hall at 7.30pm.
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Annual Gala Concert with local artists, 7.30pm at Ardrishaig Hall ,
13 Aug 2008 in Events
[ May 1, 2009; 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Mid Argyll Arts Association promotion at Ardrishaig Hall, 7.30pm, Friday 1st May.
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Djordje Gajic, Bayan accordion, 7.30pm at Lochgilphead Parish Church ,
13 Aug 2008 in Events
[ April 18, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Mid Argyll Arts Association promotion at Lochgilphead Parish Church, 7.30pm, Saturday 18th April.
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The Eisd Trio, piano, soprano, clarinet, 7.30pm at Ardrishaig Hall ,
13 Aug 2008 in Events
[ March 13, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Mid Argyll Arts Association promotion at Ardrishaig Hall, 7.30pm, Saturday 13th March.
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Canto Vivo - Simon Thacker and Claire Debono, classical guitar and soprano, 7.30pm at Ardrishaig Hall ,
13 Aug 2008 in Events
[ February 14, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Mid Argyll Arts Association promotion at Ardrishaig Hall, 7.30pm, Saturday 14th February.
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Alba String Quartet, 7.30pm, Kilmory Council Chambers ,
13 Aug 2008 in Events
[ January 24, 2009; 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Mid Argyll Arts Association promotion hosted by Argyll and Bute Council at Kilmory Council Chambers, 7.30pm, Saturday 24th January.
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