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Send us Fan Mail A great chat and session with Trouble Pilgrim member Tony St Ledger on his new solo album A Man on a Bridge

Send us Fan Mail Meet Cork Singer Majella Murphy in my 2026 Summer Cabin Session, where she chats about finding her way back after many struggles. She performs a new song from her album Shabda.

Send us Fan Mail "Grief has always been a big part of my music." Broadcast on the Roadhouse Cafe, an indepth interview with Belfast singer Joshua Burnside after the sudden death of his best friend Dean. How writing about it helped him to come with terms in some way with his grief. 

Send us Fan Mail Summer Cabin Sessions with great young live band who met in BIMM Music College, Dublin. Members hail from all over the country, including Tullamore. Influences range from The Velvet Underground to Johnny Marr. For Wifeswap, it's all about friendship and playing live.

Send us Fan Mail Barry J Walsh travels with family in tow to perform 2 beautiful tracks for the Roadhouse Cafe. Barry talks about his love for music and songwriting.

Send us Fan Mail Peter Doran is my special guest on my Summer Cabin Sessions first broadcast on the Roadhouse Cafe on Midlands 103. The Westmeath singer tells us about his home built studio, plays tracks and chats about his new album.

Send us Fan Mail Intimate Summer Cabin Session featuring singer Dave Clancy who opens up about a deep felt loss and sings a beautiful Christy Moore song especially for his 80th birthday. 

Send us Fan Mail SUMMER CABIN SESSIONS with Pete Holidai. The former Radiators from Space member and Trouble Pilgrims singer talking about his new album Electric Jukebox Vol 1, & the first time he saw The Beatles and TRex.

Send us Fan Mail Tullamore artist Dubh Lee on the release of her new song My Poor Boy. Interview and Session 

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest on the Roadhouse Cafe, Matt Benson.  It's all about finding your voice. The Trombone player from Belfast, who has played with George Ezra, Bad Manners and Neil Hannon, has just released his debut single, and what a voice he has. 

Send us Fan Mail An intimate chat with Denison Witmer on his new album 'Anything at all'. Produced by his longtime friend Sufjan Stevens . It is a beautiful interview about hope and finding peace at this time in the world. 

Send us Fan Mail ARE YA BLIND OR WHAT? My new Radio Documentary follows a group of visually impaired people in the process of making a radio play. Members of Sightless Cinema speak about how they live without light. The documentary is the result of months and months of conversations, train journeys and rehearsals. Are you blind or what? is about the ability for members to let the light in, even wh...

Send us Fan Mail A special tribute to Shane MacGowan on Ann Marie Kelly's Roadhouse Cafe with Pogueology   Singer Brian O Mahoney choosing his favourite Pogue songs. Broadcast on Midlands 103 December 8th

Send us Fan Mail While visiting Dublin for the 60th anniversary of the Beatles playing the Adelphi in 1963, The Beatles Secretary Freda Kelly chats about her time with the Fab Four and Brian Epstein, how John Lennon saved her from getting the sack and her love for the Cavern.

Send us Fan Mail A look at the musical career of the late Aslan frontman Christy Dignam from a lifelong fan. Looking at his life in music from the release of 'This is' to his last gig at Bob's Bar Durrow. Co Laois Broadcast on Midlands 103 AMKelly's Roadhouse Cafe

Send us Fan Mail George Harrison Special! The youngest Beatle, born on the 25th February, 1943, would've been 80.  On the Roadhouse Cafe, with a little help from my friends Pete Brennan and Mick Lynch from 'Beatles Ireland' we remember George with heartwarming stories and music.  His Irish roots, his many visits to Ireland, his solo records, his time with the Travelling Wilburys, ri...

Send us Fan Mail Broadcast on the weekend of the 80th Birthday of Paul McCartney. With the writer of 'The Beatles and Ireland' Book, Broadcaster Ann Marie Kelly speaks with Mick Lynch about the man, the Beatle and the solo artist from the 1950s to the present day as he sets out on tour again. This is a two hour special with his music from the early Quarrymen, The Beatles, Wings to his co...

Send us Fan Mail Rossi M is a 15 years old from Stradbally County Laois. During lockdown he used his ingenuity to create a Web Radio Studio for the community, make music, live stream funerals and stay connected with his Nanny, one of the 'Golden Girls' you'll meet in this episode of The Open Door first broadcast on Midlands 103 August 30th 7pm

Send us Fan Mail What got you through lockdown? Five 3rd Year Students from Portlaoise College, County Laois come together exactly one year after the first lock down to discuss what pieces of art helped them through the last 12 months, at a time when they were unable to see their friends. With no Junior Cert exams to worry about, it allowed them to explore other Poets not on the curriculum and for...

Send us Fan Mail "I'd like to think I know him best because he smiles a lot when I'm around especially when I pretend to slip and fall" Sean Ryan from Portlaoise is 12.  His twin brother Liam has Cerebral Palsy. Sean is very proud of once having been awarded the youngest Carer of the year. His first thoughts of the day are about his brother. His mother Niamh says this comes wit...

Send us Fan Mail "I always stand up for myself because that's what you have to do. It is hard, but I just do it to say that I'm able to do stuff myself" 20 year old Aoife Byrne from County Laois has never let her Down Syndrome get in the way of her life. As a volunteer for the Irish Red Cross, and now studying, she tells Ann -Marie of her many hopes, among them, her dream of li...

Send us Fan Mail "The Pandemic has exposed the extremities of the working conditions of the Carer in the Private Homecare Sector. Not receiving sick pay, not being able to make ends meet". 25 year old Nicholas O Neill from Abbeyleix believes his research can make a change. Being the first in his family to go to college, Nick has just received a substantial award to undertake a PhD with h...

Send us Fan Mail Kai is turning 18 and last year, during the first lock down, he decided it was time to come out and transition. He felt such a relief when he could finally speak about it to his family and friends because as he says 'I was a very angry person for so many years.' Kai's brother and sister, parents and grandparents have been incredibly supportive - His father Jason who...

Send us Fan Mail Tobi-A is a 21 year old R'n'B singer originally from Mountmellick, Co. Laois who has found his voice after playing drums and rapping for many years. Tobi is a devout Christian. At the age of 17 he "found his faith and joy in Jesus" which, he says, made him the person he is today.  This is the first episode in a 6 part series, produced by award-winning Broadcast...

Send us Fan Mail Tobi-A is a 21 year old R'n'B singer originally from Mountmellick, Co. Laois who has found his voice after playing drums and rapping for many years. Tobi is a devout Christian. At the age of 17 he "found his faith and joy in Jesus" which, he says, made him the person he is today.  This is the first episode in a 6 part series, produced by award-winning Broadcast...