Dave Mac's Local Legend

Inspired by Stevie G & an early love of Old Skool Hip-Hop, Ellen Murphy from College Road dreamt of being a music producer. Aged just 15 she scored a transition year place at a music college in New York called Dubspot. From there she got into DJing. Lenii returned to Cork to finish school and began studying psychology in UCC but went back to Dubspot for a tech internship and there crossed path...

Having already discussed Cork’s GAA Holy Trintiy of Croke, MacCarthy and Maguire, Dunmanway man Kieran Connolly is back with the fascinating story of Skellig night, Ireland’s ancient answer to Mardi Gras or Carnival, a Shrove Tuesday tradition. Discussed in the podcast is a painting of Skellig night by James Beale which is on display in the Crawford Art Gallery. It takes in the view of the Grand P...

Youth Work Ireland Cork and Love Notes to Cork have teamed up to create hand painted billboards. Davy decided to set a challenge to those he works with through Youth work Ireland. Any of the Youngsters who had shown interest had to hand draw their own posters while communicating via either Facetime/Zoom, or would meet in small groups face to face. Where Davy would help them to develop their design...

The album is a play on words as the largest instrument in the band is called a sousaphone, the album features covers such as Gangstas Paradise by Coolio and Sophie Ellis- Bextor's Murder on the dance floor. Along with an original track called 'Ole' Recorded last September in Kitten Lane recording studio's with assistance from Aidan O'Mahony and a large enough space to record 2 metres apart. Which...

Alan and his business 'Notes to Cork' have teamed up with Cork's Red FM in order the spread the love around Cork City in the form of billboards with you the listener's love notes on them, as well as this you can hear them over the airwaves and see them online. Having taken over the business after the passing of his Aunt two years ago, last year with local businesses suffering as a result of the fi...

The 5th year in the running 'The secret song festival' was supposed to happen last year but for obvious reasons it didn't go ahead. Having been crowned ‘IMRO Music Venue of the Year’ for Munster, it holds a capacity of 40 people and now it will host a number of Artists to play virtually and individually. The format it would usually take is numerous musicians varying from well established artists t...

One Hundred and seventy six years ago a young African American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, sailed from America to Ireland for a four month lecture tour. Amongst other places, he visited Cork where he spoke to a large, enthusiastic, audience. To honour his legacy, Douglass Week (February 8th to 14th) a multi-disciplinary, collaborative event has been organised, and Nano Nagle Place in Cork Ci...

The future of a worthy animal charity which offers homes to unwanted racing greyhounds is secure thanks to a significant donation from Maxi Zoo Ireland. In a year that has pushed charities to the brink, Maxi Zoo, Ireland’s largest pet retailer, has given a critical lifeline to Homes for Unwanted Greyhounds (HUG) through its Friendship Connects campaign which was run throughout its 20 stores nation...

Micheal tells us about the collective which includes artists: John Blek, Anna Mitchell, Rowan, Kevin Herron and Marlene Enright, all of whom are great singer songwriters in their own merit. However they have now joined up with the collective on order to reinterpret songs about Love, Loss and grief. All in the name of charity. Anna's song which was originally recorded by Beth Gibbons of Portishead...

Edel Curtin of Coughlans live music venue chats about the Live Music Collective which consists of 23 live venues around around the Country with 6 in Cork and they are: Coughlans, The Crane Lane,The Kino,De Barras, Levis Corner Store,The White Horse and Connolly's . With funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. 2000 people were hired taking part in 400 show...

Cork singing star and actor Claudia Rose Long brings a modern twist to the famous Irish lament, Caoineadh Art Uí Laoghaire (Lament for Art O’Leary), in the latest episode of Scéalta Grá na hÉireann. Claudia gives a powerful performance as Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill who composed the Caoineadh over 200 years ago expressing her love and passion for Cork hero and legend, Art Ó Laoghaire. Claudia worked...

Organised by a team made up of: Anna Butler, Rebecca O' Mahony, Isabelle Canning, David Walsh, Eadaoin Murphy and Eoin O' Reilly. If this is something that sparks your interest you can take a look at their online brochure where you will find out about the various speakers and as well as information about them. This year's theme 'changing with the times' is about how everything is changing and how...

Jack talks up his live set which was filmed in Cyprus Avenue in Cork city. With a diverse mix of old and new songs played, along with the assistance of his band; Hugh on Guitar, Aishling on Cello and Davy on drums. This isn't the first time he has played live since the pandemic, he has done other voices before Christmas with Such performers as; Denise Chaila,The Mary Wallopers, John Sheehan and Ei...

Joining us from Spain, Brian talks to us ahead of the steaming of his Live gig at Cyrus Avenue at 8 PM. Listen to him play his acoustic songs on a brand new guitar. We played his new single - Great Big mystery. We also give a nodd to Alan O'Donovan of Green on Red who has been a massive supporter of Brian's music down through the years. Watch Brian's gig at: https://www.facebook.com/corksredfm/vid...

Chatting from Dingle, where he’s attending a song writing boot camp with Pa Sheehy of Walking on Cars and Talos, Moncrieff discusses his recently released ‘Class of 2020’ EP and says that the lockdown has given him the perfect opportunity to put write music to suit the mood of what is happening in the world right now. This year will see him putting out music of a more personal nature on his debut...

The open night is happening this year on zoom at 7.30 PM. So far over 50 new members have signed up, will you be next? Here Dave talks about how Róisín Burke a journalist with Cork’s Evening Echo encouraged RedFM to enter a media team in the CTC King of The Hill mini tri at the Dock Beach Kinsale in 2019 and of how much fun it was. Aside from just the sporting aspect of the Triathlon there's also...

Rob Heffernan is encouraging you to get out and about, get fit and healthy whilst at the same time raising funds for a very worthy cause. Rob says rather than just keeping your body fit it will also keep your mind active by releasing endorphins and you will deal with negative situations better as a result. Listen to hear more great advise from a man who knows! The funds for this project will be sp...

Burns Night celebrates 18th century Scottish poet Robert Burns. Every year the Celtic Ross Hotel their would host a Burns Night supper with a large gathering of 60 or 70 people. However with it being the year that it is Neil and team came up with a novel idea of putting the traditional Haggis meal in a box and selling them as ‘eat-at-home’ kits.

KP Ring talks about his new single recorded with Darragh Nolan in Co. Wexford in Asta Kalapa Studios. Once finished he got in touch with filmmaker Brendan Canty jokingly asking would he help him with the music video, asking him if he could 'make him famous' as he did create Hozier's video for Take Me To Church. He ended up hearing back from Brendan's associate Ayla Amano who loved the song and wan...

Ray from Doneraile in North Cork talks up the Ardú street art walking tour for which he is the narrator. Perfect for those within 5k of the city centre and looking for something safe and fun to do. Each stop along the tour has background information about the artist's who are after painting a picture in relation to the burning of Cork City. Also to add to the experience are beats by DJ Colm K. If...

Just after getting married Canadian David Whitla moved to Ireland to join the RTÉ National Concert Symphony Orchestra. 3 years later a job opportunity for a double bass tutor in Cork arrived and 20 years later David hasn't looked back. Coming up in the next few months Cork Orchestral Society will be streaming online gigs. The first gig is this Saturday with '13 strings' with David being a member....

After having spent 13 years working as a stock broker in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong and after spending two years looking for a premises, Macroom man Tom Creedon made the brave move to open a deli in Cork city centre. Under the current circumstances the company is operating take away coffees and treats through a side hatch that opens onto French Church Street. The deli, called Masseytown in tribut...

All year Creative Ireland and TG4 asked production companies to pitch; “to create visual poems", so they set about striving to tell visual stories with flow and expression, colour, movement, speed, angles, contrast and depth. Members of the production crew include; director, Tomek, from Poland who was getting married during production but went online to help out because he knew how special the pro...

Liam O'Callaghan and Eddie are releasing this project which came about on the back of Emperor of Ice Cream's latest album last year. Having played with Liam in a band called 'Bulkhead,' which had some interest from record companies but disbanded because they got disillusioned by the music business, Eddie & Liam reunited 6 months ago after Liam reached out to Eddie with a song he had written an...

Peter is encouraging you to reach out to your colleagues to establish a work place Choir to take on the 'Choirworks' challenge. An online initiative from Cork International Choral Festival aimed at bringing people together from different locations around the country. Each company will be assigned a Choral conductor to teach each choir a song, as well as doing warm ups and having discussions about...