Clonmel Junction Arts Festival Podcast

The Clonmel Junction Arts Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary of bringing music, theatre, visual arts and spoken word to Clonmel, Tipperary every July. And to celebrate we are launching a brand new podcast series with a new episode every Thursday from the 27th of May all the way to the festival, which takes place from the 3rd to the 11th July in Clonmel.This first episode is a short promo giving future podcast details and gives a flavour of our special 20th anniversary episode on the 27th of May with the festival founder David Teevan telling us about a meeting with the current festival director Cliona Maher where the festival's unique name was thought up.We really look forward to sharing a new episode every Thursday where we will be looking back on memorable festival highlights and looking forward and giving information on upcoming events and interesting interviews with artists coming to Clonmel for this years’ festival in July. We would ask you to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, so you are the first to get every episode each Thursday. We cannot wait to share great memories and stories with you over the coming weeks.  For more information click here https://www.junctionfestival.com/

The Clonmel Junction Arts Festival was launched online this week and we have festival director Cliona Maher to discuss the exciting program for 2021 which includes music, theatre, visual arts, live at the Dome, workshops, podcast live, literature and much more. The festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and we are sharing memories from past festivals every Thursday. We have delighted to have festival founder David Teevan on this episode and he shares his most memorable moments and talks about the importance of festivals to community. We really look forward to sharing a new episode every Thursday where we will be looking back on memorable festival highlights and looking forward and giving information on upcoming events and interesting interviews with artists coming to Clonmel for this years’ festival in July.We would ask you to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, so you are the first to get every episode each Thursday. We cannot wait to share great memories and stories with you over the coming weeks. For more information click here https://www.junctionfestival.com/

We chat on this podcast episode all about this year's great music program with Cliona Maher and we chat with a selection of music acts including Jerry Fish, Paul Walsh, Eoin Hally, Ruairi De Leaster and Edel Meade.We really look forward to sharing a new episode every Thursday where we will be looking back on memorable festival highlights and looking forward and giving information on upcoming events and interesting interviews with artists coming to Clonmel for this years’ festival in July.We would ask you to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, so you are the first to get every episode each Thursday. We cannot wait to share great memories and stories with you over the coming weeks. For more information click here https://www.junctionfestival.com

We have a very special episode with Festival Director Cliona Maher who goes through the brilliant theatre program. We are celebrating our 20th anniversary and we have Bess Hughes and Aisling Kilroy sharing special past theatre memories. We also have interviews with Pat Kinevane, Eve O'Mahony, Amy Hill and Fionnuala Gygax from this year's program. We really look forward to sharing a new episode every Thursday where we will be looking back on memorable festival highlights and looking forward and giving information on upcoming events and interesting interviews with artists coming to Clonmel for this years’ festival in July.We would ask you to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, so you are the first to get every episode each Thursday. We cannot wait to share great memories and stories with you over the coming weeks. For more information click here https://www.junctionfestival.com

We explore the visual arts and the audio trails program for the festival this year with interviews with festival director Cliona Marr and participants Lucy Phelan, Billy O'Riordan, Jack Reardon and Aoife Delaney Reade. We really look forward to sharing a new episode every Thursday where we will be looking back on memorable festival highlights and looking forward and giving information on upcoming events and interesting interviews with artists coming to Clonmel for this years’ festival in July.We would ask you to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, so you are the first to get every episode each Thursday. We cannot wait to share great memories and stories with you over the coming weeks. For more information click here https://www.junctionfestival.com

The Clonmel Junction Arts Festival starts this Saturday 3rd July and finishes on Sunday 11th July. We chat today with festival director Cliona Maher about the Spoken Word program, the live Travel Tales with Fergal Podcast with Louise Nealon, Michael Kennedy on his book launch this week and the play Collins Hall with Jack Reardon. We really look forward to sharing a new episode every Thursday where we will be looking back on memorable festival highlights and looking forward and giving information on upcoming events and interesting interviews with artists coming to Clonmel for this years’ festival in July.We would ask you to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, so you are the first to get every episode each Thursday. We cannot wait to share great memories and stories with you over the coming weeks. For more information click here https://www.junctionfestival.com

The Clonmel Junction Arts Festival is in full swing with lots of events every day until Sunday, 11th July. I chat with Eamon O’Malley who closes the festival on Sunday with his band CLE. As it is the 20th anniversary of the festival this year, I also talk to some production techies from the past and present who share festival memories including the current Production Manager Colin Everitt without whom the festival would just not happen. We also talk to past techies Michael Lonergan and Wes Hughes.We had the launch of the festival at our brand new Dome on Saturday and we hear the new Clonmel Mayor Michael Murphy, board member John Kennedy, Paul Walsh from Royseven, Senator Garrett Ahearn and Celine Scully from the Clonmel Credit Union. For more information click here https://www.junctionfestival.com

For our final episode of the Junction Podcast we have the Travel Tales with Fergal Podcast interview with debut author Louise Nealon which was recorded live in the amazing new Junction Dome during the festival.Louise Nealon chats with Fergal O'Keeffe about her experiences in the last year from getting an agent, to writing her book Snowflake, to getting Snowflake published and then going straight to No.1 in the Irish bestseller charts. This interview will be of interest to anyone who loves writing as we delve into the writing process and the inspirations that fuel her creativity. Thanks for all the support for my podcast and our festival this year. We would ask you to subscribe to this podcast and the Travel Tales with Fergal Podcast to be the first to know when the next episode of Travel Tales comes out this September. For more information on the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival click here https://www.junctionfestival.comFor more information on the Travel Tales with Fergal Podcast click here https://traveltaleswithfergal.ie