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Showband Heroes Episode 2 featuring Paddy Cole and Sandy Kelly

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Showband Heroes: Dancing in the Dark

In 2020, TaRP recorded a number of online events in its limited series, ‘Music – A Bridge over Troubled Waters’. The response left the producers in no doubt that music could re-connect, reawaken and re-invigorate the common, cross-community bond that endured even through our darkest days. For that series, musicians were mainly drawn from the folk/acoustic genre but this time, the focus is on stars from the showband, cabaret and rock groups who entertained mixed audiences from the early Sixties through to the late Seventies; many of whom still attract large audiences to dancehalls and concerts. Ironically, the Showbands remain the unsung heroes of their time, but now their priceless legacy is finally being acknowledged and honoured.

‘Showband Heroes’ Episode 2 features two of Ireland’s greatest musical emissaries, Paddy Cole of The Capitol Showband, The Big 8 and The Paddy Cole All-Stars, and Sandy Kelly from The Fairways Showband who had her own TV series and toured and recorded with Johnny Cash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcRKpwYDBs8

Presenter - Ken Murray
Producer - Stephen Travers
Executive Producer - Eugene Reavey
Co-Executive Producer -Joe Campbell
Online Producer - Tracy Dempsey

Recorded at The Miami Showband Peace Centre Online.
A Truth and Reconciliation Platform Project ‘remembering when we danced together’.

This series is supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
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