Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy (Variety, Irish)
Status: Running
Premiered: 2022-11-20
Network: TG4
Country: IE
Airs on: Sunday
Air time: 21:30
Runtime: 30 minutes
This hugely popular series will feature entertaining high-end performances and fascinating conversation against this very alluring backdrop. As a musical event, Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy showcases every single aspect of the tradition – the learners, the festival enthusiasts, the dancers, the singers, the discerning listeners, the younger modern players, and the professionals. Now celebrating 51 years, it continues to attract international crowds and huge talent into the tiny West Clare town of Miltown Malbay year-on-year.It has become something of a ‘Mecca of Music', and this series showcases the diversity of sights and sounds that can be found there annually. Each episode of this musically exciting series will take us from morning to night during a day at the summer school and features music, song, dance, and chat from a variety of characters from across the globe, and closer to home. Throughout the four episodes, we will meet a diverse and talented cohort of interesting characters.