With music evoking powerful moods and memories, there’s much we can learn from someone's personal choice of music, so each week, for 10 weeks, members of a different new Irish community introduce songs from their country of heritage that are personally important to them. Alongside this, Vinny Bradley will be linking up with a radio presenter and radio station in that country to talk about current musical trends and play some of their biggest hit songs of the moment.
We hear from Svitlana Saseyi, Oksana Ovcharenko and Khrystyna Ovcharenko who are from Ukraine, but currently living in Kilkenny. All three are pictured. We also link up with Uranian music expert Deni…
On this edition we're joined by Solenn Ryan and Alexis Nicholas who were both born in France but now live locally. Vinny will also be talking to French radio DJ, Oli Jauffrit. We hear Alexis and Sole…
On this edition we're joined by Paula Fantini and Joel Alves who were both born in Brazil but now live locally. Vinny will also be talking to Henrique Dovalle, he lives in Miami but was born in Brazi…
In this edition of International Playlist the local contributors are Liviu and Stefan (pictured). Stefan is a former contestant from the Romanian X-Factor. We’ll also hear from Andreea Berghea who wo…
We hearing some of the best songs of all time from South Africa. These will be chosen by Monique, Millé (pictured) and James - all originally from South Africa but now settled in Carlow Kilkenny. Vi…
We hear from, amongst others, father and son Yavier and Guilee who are originally from Northern Spain but have settled in Carlow Kilkenny - as you would imagine their song choices are very different …