a fan site dedicated to Irish band The Frames
Last week Colm participated in Sunday Miscellany Live at Christmas at the National Concert Hall in Dublin.
You can hear him with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra with Emer’s Dream & Finnish Line here via the RTÉ Radio Player. If you have the time, listen to the whole show for other songs and lovely readings by Irish authors & poets.
Click here & skip to 7:15 for Emer’s Dream
Click here & skip to 24:50 for Finnish Line
Today FM’s Fiachna Ó Braonáin hosts Poetic Champions Compose – a celebration of classic Irish albums ‘championed’ by Ireland’s leading contemporary artists.
Go here & jump down to the one with Paddy Casey talking about The Waterboys’ “Fisherman’s Blues”. The whole thing is really interesting, and Colm shows up around minute 34. Each of the shows is really cool actually, have a listen through when you’ve got the time.
In December 2011, NPR’s ‘World Cafe’ featured Dublin in its ‘Sense of Place’ series. There is an audio portion here and then Glen takes host David Dye on a little walking musical tour of the city. See part 1 of 8 below. Click here to see the other 7 videos!
Throughout the week, World Cafe travels to Dublin, Ireland — the first stop in a quarterly series called Sense of Place. We hope to give you an idea of the past and present of the city’s local music scene and provide tips from musicians and music lovers for those hoping to visit this culturally rich town.
For this week only (until Sunday the 20th), The Live Music Hour at BBC Radio is featuring 3 live songs from The Frames in August 1992 – Masquerade, Picture of Love, Right Road (Wrong Road). They’re tucked in between R.E.M. at Glastonbury in 2003 & a Peel Session from The Family Cat. Go to 37 minutes to get straight to The Frames. Click here to listen on the BBC iPlayer!
This week NPR’s ‘World Cafe’ featured Dublin in its ‘Sense of Place’ series. There is an audio portion here and then Glen takes host David Dye on a little walking musical tour of the city.
Throughout the week, World Cafe travels to Dublin, Ireland — the first stop in a quarterly series called Sense of Place. We hope to give you an idea of the past and present of the city’s local music scene and provide tips from musicians and music lovers for those hoping to visit this culturally rich town.
In the video above, enjoy a virtual walking tour of the vibrant musical city of Dublin. Our main tour guide in Dublin is Glen Hansard, the Academy Award–winning songwriter and actor from the film Once, and the leader of Irish group The Frames. Ever the charmer and eager to share his knowledge, Hansard leads World Cafe host David Dye around the old haunts where Hansard got his start as an artist. Undeterred by the rainy weather, the two search for busking musicians and stop at the old Irish pub, O’Donoghue’s, for a pint and some live music. Much to the crowd’s delight, Hansard joins in to play a few tunes.
Click here to learn more about Sense of Place, and check out WXPN’s interactive map of Dublin.