Pearse Conaty with Moderator Deirdre Giblin

Corner Boy are a group of multi-instrumentalist songwriters from the South-East of Ireland that combine contemporary and traditional music to form a distinct alt-folk sound.

Martina Jensen lives in a village called Kilanerin in Wexford and is an ICU nurse working on the frontline in a major Dublin Hospital. She was very ill with Covid 19 symptoms in March and wrote a song.

Billy Woods is a singer songwriter musician, composer, actor from Kells, Co. Meath. He talks about how the current pandemic is impacting his worls and how he hopes his music brings strenght to people who are sufferuing.

Neil Cooney, Country Manager/SVP Canada,Enterprise Ireland, and Michael Barton, Regional Director Canada, Invest Northern Ireland shared an update on the Irish and Northern Irish response for business to COVID-19 at a recent Webinar facilitated by ICCCTO

Michael Kerr a full-time working musician and singer/songwriter from Belfast.

Kíla are an Irish folk music/world music group, originally formed in 1987 in the Irish language secondary school Coláiste Eoin in County Dublin.

An isolated Ojibway First Nations reservation in Northern Ontario, Canada is the setting for “Ogoki – Call of the Wild”. It was here in the 1970s and 80’s that the Mulrooney Family, from Limerick lived for seven years.

John Treacy talks about the impact of COVID-19 in West Clare

Ursula Ledwith is based in Athlone and was involved with Athlione Community Radio for a number of years. Ursula shares her reflections and thoughts on how the current pandemic effects her life and those around her.