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Cathal McCooey and Pat Byrne with a retrospective on the bands and musicians that played Slane Castle. 2nd Saturday from 2 pm to 4 pm. Pat and Cathal have worked as a cohesive and dedicated team in the making of the Slane Through The Years series, giving freely of their time to ensure that all deadlines are met and the programme is delivered with both professionalism and style. They have coordinated the allocation of pre-recorded content, with extraordinary attention to detail, and executed every aspect with deliberate precision. The arrival of the pandemic in March 2020 coincided with the launch of the series, and as a consequence, much of the technical backup that would have previously been available to the 2 volunteer presenters was immediately removed. Undeterred, they both fine-tuned their recording and editing skills, embraced new technologies to adapt to the new norm, and continued to produce high-quality original programming, that grew in strength and tandem with their new competencies. Without prior knowledge or introduction, they managed to connect with numerous musicians, many of whom have fallen slightly off the radar, and convince them to participate in the programme. Slane Through The Years now has a loyal listenership, both On Air and online, while the 2 presenters have found themselves the ‘go-to’ candidates for other voluntary presenters looking for advice on improving production values and advances in practical applications.
Danny O Hanlon chats to friends and acquaintances about the music that they have been listening to during the last week.
Music as chosen by you, the listener, every 4th Saturday at 11.00 pm. Presented by Margaret Hoey and the Mystery Man.
Sean Fegan with an authentic blues (and rhythm and blues) show. 4th Wednesday at 9 pm. To catch up on Sean’s previous Lockdown Blues programmes, click below. https://www.mixcloud.com/seanfegan77/
On the first Saturday Night of the month, Andy McKenna brings you back to the 1980s with his choice of music.
The Community Foundation for Ireland is supporting Dundalk FM’s Community Call Radio Series. Open for streets/residents associations/community and voluntary organisations/sports groups to record a show as part of our Summer Community Call Series. Community Call will be broadcast each Sunday at 5.00 pm. See the listing below for the series schedule. Liz Carville has been in contact with over 100 local community groups, 30 of which have agreed to take part in the series. The recordings are underway and the series will be broadcast starting in December 2020 – times and dates will be announced shortly. Community Group and Broadcast Date – all shows are on Sunday at 5pm. Fatima Residents Association 13/12/20 Dundalk Musical Society 20/12/20 Tuites Lane 27/12/20 An Grupa na Leabharlanna 03/01/21 Family Addiction Support Network 10/01/20 Carlingford Lough Heritage Trust 17/01/21 Louth Mavericks American Football Club 24/01/21 Dundalk Railway Heritage Society 31/01/21 Carlingford Tidy Towns 07/02/20 Dundalk Muslim Community 14/02/20 Russian Bridge Club 21/02/20 Redemptorist Church 28/02/21 Dundalk Toastmasters 07/03/21 Dundalk Outcomers 14/03/21 Dundalk Youth Centre 21/03/21 disAbility Louth 28/03/21 Louth Film Makers Society 04/04/21 Here is the 1st programme in our Community Call series….Tuites Lane hosted by Daniel Deery, Sound Engineer John Englishby… https://www.mixcloud.com/DundalkFMMixcloud/community-call-1-tuites-lane-part/ Fatima Community Call Programme In this programme, Maryrose Muckian talks with three long-time residents of Fatima, Dundalk. Paddy McCourt, Pearse Campbell and Kevin Maguire share memories of their lives and times in the estate, of growing up and raising their families in the area. They also share some of their favourite songs as they remind us what it was like living in Dundalk in those bygone days. This programme is hosted by Maryrose Muckian and was recorded under social distancing rules in Fatima at the clubhouse of Dundalk Northend Pigeon Club on 7th July, 2020. The recording and editing were carried out by Philip O’Brien with the help of Cathal McCooey. https://www.mixcloud.com/DundalkFMMixcloud/community-call-fatima-dundalk-part/ Carlingford Lough Heritage Trust This programme was hosted by Seamus Murphy and Kieran McCourt and they chat to John Woods, Patricia Morrissey, Gerry McAlinden, Harry McCarthy, Lorena Rafferty and Linda Stevens about what it was like growing up in Carlingford and how the village has developed, the achievements of the Carlingford Lough Heritage Trust, the Thosel and Station House, what its like to be a tour guide, how the Carlingford Heritage Centre promotes arts, music, history, festivals and events and plans to engage more families to take a day trip or stay over. https://www.mixcloud.com/DundalkFMMixcloud/community-call-carlingford-lough-heritage-trust-part/ Louth Mavericks American Football Club This programme was hosted by Alex Simms Pro and Player and he chats to Declan Mulvihill – Club Secretary & Player, Robbie Caldwell – Flag Football Coach & Player, Meg King – Flag football defensive captain and David Lynch – Player. https://www.mixcloud.com/DundalkFMMixcloud/community-call-louth-mavericks-part/ Carlingford Tidy Towns Committee In this programme we hear from Joanne Redpath – Secretary, Stephen Callan – Treasurer, Gerry Mc Garitty- liaison with Louth County Council. member of Carlingford Community Forum and Denise Creggan-member of Carlingford Community Forum. Dundalk Muslim Community In this programme we heard from Imam Nuh, Saheed Yusuf and Amina Mayo from the Dundalk Muslim Community. We heard about the daily devotions, Ramadan, giving to charity, counselling others and helping member sin need, language interpretation, celebrations, cross border programmes, cultural and sports programmes cross community projects. The plans for 2021 will be to continue to provide these services, collect donations to complete the Muslim Centre, to create a fund for people in need, improve the education facilities, strengthen the interactions with community and statutory agencies and to engage with Dundalk’s community radio station service for the development of their members. Russian Bridge Anastasia McCabe, Tatiana Zaiceva, Ina Vanickin and Andrey Soldatkin took part in this programme explaining how the community group was founded after a Round Table Discussion with Sarah Smith, a lecturer in Russian and Slavonic Studies from Trinity College Dublin in 2007. They tell us about the Russian Film School and Summer Camps in Carlingford, their hiking club, the Pushkin Festival, Charity Ball, the International John Field Piano and Vocal Competition and the dramatisation of Blue Bird in a Táin Arts Centre Dundalk. Community Call Radio Promo Script Have you ever been on Dundalk FM? What was it for? – to promote your community group, or a fundraiser, a sports event on behalf of your school or maybe it was to record a music programme. Have you ever called us on nine three, nine five, one hundred or texted us on oh eight seven, zero nine, zero nine, seven nine one to send in a request or dedication for a favourite song. We are here for you when you need us. Your radio is so powerful that a song can bring back memories of a person, or of a place or of a time. The thing is right now, during this time, we need you to help us with a new programme – Community Call. A one off show for every street and estate in the town. Join us on a Video Chat, like Zoom, to remember the old times, growing up on the street and in the fields behind the streets! It will be pre- recorded during June and aired in July and August. And it is dedicated to raising the spirits of our friends and neighbours. We need to get back to sharing the treasures of life. To join in the video chat for your street phone nine three, nine five, one hundred email talk@dundalkfm.ie or look at the notice on our Facebook Page. This is a Community Foundation for Ireland Covid19 Response Project in support of Dundalk FM. C’mon Dundalk FM listeners – we want you to do the talking! Community Call will be a twice weekly programme dedicated to raising the spirits of our friends and neighbours in Dundalk. We need to get back to sharing the treasures of life. The aim is to ask old friends and neighbours to reminisce for the listening pleasure of our mainly middle aged and elderly audience.
Notes from the Remote Broadcast Q and A Session 5.00 pm – 6.30 pm 23rd April 2020 Tracey Hanby, Alan Byrne, Cathal McCooey, Philip O’Brien, Mary Rose Muckian, Pat Byrne, David Bellew, Sean Callaghan (Marian Del Duca and Padraig Quigley had signed out before we took a class snap). Seoirse McCann was presenting the Drive Time show and unable to attend but we kept an mp3 file for reference. We will run a follow up on Thursday 30th April 2020 at 5.00 pm. PC/Laptop Microphones A plug-in mic and headphones are preferable unless you will be on air for just a short interview, then the PC or laptop or phone audio will suffice. A mic or headset in the €5 to €30 range. Gaming mics will also be a step up in the audio quality. Recording Shows Sean will record a show each week with David using Zoom. There is a belated birthday present on the way to him from Dundalk FM to help with the next Beaten Tracks show! Marian and Charles will record the Health and Well Being programme via Zoom as two 22 minute shows and email them to David. 100 Years of Music – 60 names so far, 40 to go… https://dundalkfm.ie/about-us/schedule/shows/100-years-of-music/ 2000 Tracey 1995 Mary Rose will record links on the phone (say a link, count to five silently, say the next link and so on….) and email them to David along with the list of songs. 1992 Philip 1968 Sean will record this show with David on Zoom. 1955 Pat has this completed and will send it in. If you know someone who would like to do a show, please let them know, I’d like to have 100 presenters, especially people who would like to join the station as a presenter in the future. Shows completed so far are available to listen to anytime on our Mixcloud page. https://www.mixcloud.com/DundalkFMMixcloud/ Spotlight Pat – one done and will send it in. Examples where Zoom could be used as part of live programming The Slane Concerts Show with Cathal in the Studio and Pat on Zoom (or in the Production Studio). Lion’s Club – the sound quality of the pre-recorded show is very good. The show could be done live via Zoom as is the Brunch. Joining Paddy to present on Good Morning Dundalk /Tracey Hosting a panel discussion on Town Talk. Fadó Fadó is pre-recorded via Zoom. The Brunch is broadcast live and had 2 guests from the Chamber of Commerce join them last week. One guest used a headset (approx €25 and the audio quality was very high). Some audio is better e.g. where presenters are using USB or plugin Mics. Sound Desks A sound desk with faders rather than pots starts around the €80 mark. Local stores that would source a Sound Desk, recorders, and other audio equipment are B Sharp and Audio Comm. Audio Editing Philip recorded an AlphaBeats show on Audacity. This is free to download. Pat uses Reaper (you can use the full version free, to evaluate it, the cost to buy is €60). If you want to learn Reaper – see the tutorial on the Dundalk FM youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/dundalkfmradio Remote Broadcasting You would need 1 x laptop to play out your music, ads, news, etc. You can download WinAmp for free. Another Free Radio Playout software used by many CR stations is Zara. A mic, mic stand and pop shield. An external sound card. 1 laptop which runs a small encoding programme that you download and type in the details for our server. A member of staff will run a series of tests with a presenter to ensure the audio and music levels are correct and that there is no buffering. A wired Ethernet cable connecting the router and laptop is advisable. Broadcast Myself is an Android App (€3.09). Alan uses this app at away soccer matches to transmit the commentary and half time ads (saved as one file). This evening’s chat was a chance for presenters who hadn’t met in person before to say hello. There was a wonderful sense of ‘we’re in this together’ which was demonstrated by being able to help colleagues with technical advice. I hope that you now have the confidence to try out the next step in remote recording and broadcasting – recording to a phone, recording on Zoom, audio editing, acquiring radio equipment and maybe someday – live remote broadcasting. For the kind words of appreciation for the support that you receive from staff, thank you. Alan Below you will find tutorials to help you record and edit programming from home. How to record Links to your Smart Phone. How to Edit a Radio Show at Home. The first describes how to record links for a show with a Voice Recorder App, your Smart Phone, your script and a room with soft furnishings. You can then share the files to our staff. We will prepare the show for broadcast. Recorded and edited by David Bellew with thanks to Tara Tine/ March 2020. The real enjoyment starts when you start to edit, top and tail, fade in and out, normalise, increase and decrease the amplitude, the dynamics processing and filtering. This next tutorial will show you how to combine the links, songs and any intro, outros or stings and render it into an mp3 file. In the next tutorial, you will learn advanced expert tips on EQ, Noise Removal and Compression using plug-ins.
Here’s a snapshot taken of the Brunch show on Saturday 18/04/20. Here’s our presenters and radio team pre-recording the Fadó Fadó show on Friday afternoon. To listen to our podcasts click on the Mixcloud icon below. [podcast title=”Covid 19 by Noel Sharkey read by Mary Rose Muckian.”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Noel-Sharkey-Covid-19.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”Barry Sheelan in Sardinia talks to Marissa Lucchesi.”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200323_Barry-Sheelan_Sardinia-mono.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”Grainne Loughran, Communications Officer with Alone talks to Marissa Luchesi.”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200316_Grainne-Loughran_Alone-mono.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”Ann Larkin from Women’s Aid Dundalk talks to Pat Byrne”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200318_Ann-Larkin_Womens-Aid-mono.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”Are You Here?”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Are-You-Here-.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”20200318 Covid 19 Public Service Notice”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID19-Notice0200319-Caroline-vo.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”20200311 Orla McLaughlin in Venice talks to Pat Byrne”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200311_Orla-McLoughlin_Venice-mono.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”20200312 Pat Hamilton speaks his son Ciaran in Shanghai”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200312_-Ciaran-Hamilton_Shanghai-7m20s.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”20200313 Sean Fegan talks to Kevin Morrison in Sydney”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200313_Kevin-Morrison_Sydney-mono-.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”20200313 Nadia Biondi in Lucca speaks to Marissa Lucchesi”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200313_Nadia-Biondi_Lucca-mono.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”20200313 Dr Peter Finnegan talks to Marissa Lucchesi”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200313_Dr-Peter-Finnegan-mono.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”20200313 Karen Thornton, KT Travel talks to Marissa Lusschesi”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200313_-Karen-Thornton_KT-Travel-mono.mp3[/podcast] [podcast title=”20200313 From Milan, Donald Robin speaking to Marissa Lucchesi”]https://dundalkfm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200313_Robin-Donald_Milan-mono.mp3[/podcast] Advice to all Members 10th March 2020 If the station is closed down we will ask presenters to send in a show if they can or else we will play edited backups and work remotely. Introduction The safety and well-being of our members, staff and visitors is very important and we are monitoring advice provided by the Irish authorities – Department of Health, Department of Foreign Affairs and the HSE – regarding Coronavirus/COVID-19. We are adopting a policy of high-compliance and seek to adopt further measures to minimise the risks where it is appropriate to do so. General Instructions. In order to minimise the risk of the spread of COVID-19 at the station, at Outside Broadcast Events, meetings and training, you are asked to do the following: Travel If you or a member of your household is returning from any of the areas identified as high-risk by the HSE or the Department of Foreign Affairs; whether or not symptoms are evident, we request that you do not come into the station. Notification Please contact a member of staff immediately if you believe that a risk of transmission of the virus has arisen for any reason on Dundalk FM premises. Hygiene When at the station, events or meetings, please observe the personal hygiene recommendations. Meticulous hand washing. Covering coughs and sneezes in the correct manner to avoid the spread of infected water-droplets. Safe disposal of used tissues and cleaning of infected surfaces. Wipe the desk faders and desktops – wipes are provided in the studio. Go to https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/coronavirus/coronavirus.html for up-to-date advice, description of symptoms, etc. Cancellations Dundalk FM may cancel live programming at short notice in order to avoid the risk of transmission of the disease. We will broadcast similar programmes where it is possible to do so. Also, please notify us in advance of non-attendance due to COVID-19 concerns so that we can put on alternative programming. Dundalk FM will endeavour to keep you up to date and ask you to follow public health guidelines at all times. Thank you for your co-operation. Alan Byrne Manager
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