Well, our final guest of the morning is Briti McNamara from Tala, well known with the cultural name, it wouldn't come to me. Great to have you. Thanks very much. It's a lovely situation here, isn't it? Isn't it? Lovely spot here. We haven't been to you for a number of months, and when we were last, we went on a Sunday day there one day to do what we have broadcast. We broadcast a number of your concerts. It's going well, I presume. Yes, it's great, thank God you. We kind of took the summer now fairly handy. We didn't do anything at all during the month of August, and we stayed question off for July because you need a bit of a breather. You do, and of course, there were festivals on in Tala, and then people in the Skara, the Allard and Flair, and a lot of people are gone. I suppose we have classes all year round until June, and then you just need to kind of slow down a bit, so that you'll come back energised in September, so we're just opening up, back up next Monday now for classes and all the usual. What have you, would you say, in the classes actually now? Yeah, we've got loads of classes now, and our fairness is got so big. We have traditional music classes, and practically every instrument, every evening of the week, this class is monday to saturday, or even all day saturday. There's fiddle and flute and piano and drums and guitar, and there's group classes for just, you know, mixed musicians, plane classes, and then we have Irish dancing, and monday we have set dancing on a Thursday, and then we have, we'll say activities that aren't our own, but to choose our space, you know, like the speech and drama, there's yoga, there's Pilates, it's full every single evening of the week, the building is busy now with different classes starting on the week of the ninth. And I remember we were over there, I said the first time we were over there, you were still working on the theatre side of it, it hadn't been finished. Has it made a great difference to what you can do? It has made an absolutely huge difference to what we can do, because we were running set dancing in a little room that you could only have two sets on the floor at the same time, and now you can have six, you know, and then even for bands and groups in that practice and they could never get up on a stage before a competition, now they've staged practice every practice, yeah, you know, the facility is just so improved for everything that we do, and then as well as that we had yoga running in a tea room at the back where you could maybe have 11 people and they wouldn't have room to extend their arms, we're gonna have 25 people in a yoga apparatus class now, you know, so it's huge difference, it has made and I suppose the other huge difference it made is for the community, I mean the amount of community events that are held in Kloknigwieh, we have Christians and funerals and weddings, like, you know, people celebrate their birthdays and we've all sorts of activities now on concerts and kailies and, you know, so it's so it's open to the community in general, not just those who are attached to Kloknigwieh. No, not at all, no, it's widely widely used by the community, I mean the GA club user for middle presentation, so komogi club do's and every club in the parish scouts use it a lot and a lot of groups use it, it's really has shocked us, I suppose, how much need there was in Tola for a venue that could cope with such a diverse, you know, amount of activities, that's the thing about it, you know, it really can, and it's very accessible, and it's very accessible, and it's wheelchair accessible, and, you know, it ticks every box, you know, everybody is able to, we have fabulous night, they're equivalent on clarinet for Kiti Leiden, they're two weeks ago, it was an absolutely fabulous night, but a lot of the patrons like were over 80 and they could all get in and out so easy and, you know, I think it's accessible to the accessible titles, there's accessible everything, so every age group, like we have yoga classes for, you know, the chair exercises for the over 65s, you know, and there's bridge for, you know, which is mostly, I suppose, people, 17, 80 years of age coming in playing bridge, and they all can just use the facilities because it is so, as well, so easy, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you have a council come up with Elna Shenley, we have, on the top team to September, yeah, Elna is a beautiful singer, we have fabulous, yeah, we have a nice, we do have a nice, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we went out in four in the environment, which was a mouth of the snipe, she's a beautiful singer, yeah, she's a fabulous singer, and she's bringing her band, so the Paradise Band are coming, so you have Project McGovern and Pipes, and he plays the tin whistle in the concertina, and then you have Dave Sheridan, he plays the flute and the accordion and the piano, and Jan McCartion on the guitar, so it's a real mix of great music, and even if you listen to what she does, you know, the instrumental music in her songs, just happens back, yeah, it's one to a great concert, I'll tell you, it's three quarters sold out now, at this stage, like, and we haven't even started pushing it yet, the edge is only going into the gym, it's week, but it's already, there's two parts of the seats are gone for that already, so I'd say to anyone that is interested in going to Elna Shenley, the tickets are available online with a ticket tater, but also in Toda in the pharmacy, and we have them in Konoguihe, so if people want to, but I'd say there's maybe 40, 50 tickets max, there isn't even that, but 40 tickets left, let's say, now for that concert, yeah. And pretty, we can do the music coming up until the end, but I suppose, I might start at the beginning, if you don't mind, okay, like, just to say about her singing on the first Friday, everyone, we have a singing session which is hosted by John Condon, and that used to be the Spencer Hill singers, which Robbie McMahon starts, which is absolutely gorgeous, it happens every first Friday, at 9 o'clock, everybody that likes singing or that would like to sing is welcome, I mean, there are listeners as well as singers, it's not just a singers club, it's for listeners and singers, yeah, and Oliver time, yeah, and like the good luck from this, the middle skill-cation direction, it's fabulous night, it's free, and everybody's welcome to this, that's the first thing, so that's on the 6th of September, and then Eleanor Shanley's on the 13th, and then the next event after that is the, the 9th of the 14th is actually this Tola get together, where there's been a call out to people over 30, who, you know, were Tola, I suppose, lived and worked in Tola, and then a lot of people who went away, like, there's people coming back from the States and from the Emirates and from the UK and different places, all just coming back to me after years have been away, and to meet the people that didn't go away and stayed around, you know, so that's how it's to be a really great night, now that's a ticket at a event, and you need to look it up online and just get into it, it's ticket is just for crowd control, because we have no idea how many people to come, yeah, but Larry McAvoy is playing at that event that night, and that's on Saturday the 14th of September, then the 20th is culture night, so the Tola cultist branch are running culture night, and that last year it was a fabulous concert, so they usually just stream music and sing and dancing, it's great night, I haven't the exact lineup project, but that's a free night on the 20th, and everybody is welcome to come to that, and then the 20th of September, yeah, we were really busy September, and then the last weekend in September, we have our own traditional music weekend, yeah, and that opens on the 27th, which is Kaylee with the Knook and Glee, our own Kaylee band, and then on the Saturday we have Gero Daniel and Trevor Sexton during concert, and they're absolutely fabulous, they've sold out every venue they've ever been in, and they set out venues that are almost side by side, because anyone that goes to their concert wants to go to, they'll go in the next night after they're there, they're amazing, so we have them on the Saturday the 27th, and those tickets are on ticket hater, and they're also in Tola in Thrambe and at Knook, and then on Sunday evening we have Kaylee with Steve Oxley, that's Mark, and Mark Donlin, and Jim Carley, and Charlie Harris, that'll be great, so it's two great Kaylee's, and the concert, and then we have a big closing session on the Sunday evening, that everybody and anybody is welcome to join and come in and listen to, and that gets us out in September, and we're not even going to think about October, Tony, you certainly would want to be energized from the summer, yeah, well, you can see why we throw it down for August, yeah, yeah, yeah, and suppose you'll be planning more stuff out for later than ever. We always try to have a concert, you know, between Christmas and the New Year, that's a week where there's lots of people here, and you know, and that's a week that people kind of like, maybe in a Tuesday or Wednesday nights between Christmas and the New Year, that people just go to something local, and we have to find that the people just love to be able to just go local and really walk home, rather than having to go off to NSR a further way to confront entertainment, so we definitely will be doing something that week, and we always do more calies, you know, for the winter time, like, we really carry a month for winter, like, because people, the calie dancers are the most enthusiastic, you know, supporters of calies, they're fabulous, that is popular, the calie dance. Hugely popular, yeah, I mean, I have a question, that we can't see programme and division of the calie dance, that's a huge one. Oh, yeah, there's a tension in the market, and yeah, yeah, and the toilet bench, they were in the Kulturland in Monkstown in Dublin, the Kultur said quarters, as a calie, they had it up online this morning, so the calie dancers just need, all they need to know is the time and the venue, and yeah, they're really, you hardly have to advertise a calie, you just let it out one, and the word goes round as every calie, they announce what's coming up, because they love it, the thing, you know, the calie dancers, they do love it, and it's a bit like the singers, all the singers, you know, they know when every singing session is going on, because they, it's their thing, and they're really over, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just, just my other centre, just my other sister, such a great success, and yeah, thank God for that. It's great, it was just great. And with the singing, and with various things, it's participation as well. Oh yeah, it is, yeah. It's not just going to hear someone play, they can sing themselves, they can bring an instrument, basically, they can, and the thing is that, you know, what happens, the singing is that John Kahnton goes round to everybody that comes in, and he says, to them, you know, would you like to sing? And if they'd like to sing, they sing, and if they say, no, I'd rather listen, they listen, there's no pressure, but not anyone, but anyone that comes is going to get to sing at least two, if not three songs like this, the way it goes round, and it's a very, it's a very nice atmosphere there, you know, and it's funny the way they're all, there's great camaraderie between singers, yeah, they all, and there's great respect for singers too, you know, everybody listens, there's nobody talking about the thing, and it's going on, that's which is, it's actually, for us, you know, who is, I suppose, in the approach to us about that first, we, we talked, couldn't hardly work in our building because, you know, I was thinking, singing should be in a kind of an old kind of, like the black sticks, you know, a cosy kind of, but it actually has worked very well, they have just kind of, just kind of, grown into it now, and it's just nice, and still total, and people know about it, and it's in the auditorium, you know, we do it in the bar, yeah, just there, and it's lovely, in the front, yeah, you could have 30, 30 singers, and if I deny, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's lovely, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's marvelous, that's all we do, yeah, I said I have nothing else to just care, yeah, it was at the present, and that's when we like it new, and it's great to promote the, yeah, and thanks very, yeah, she's great, yeah, and it's fabulous for us, to guess, the opportunity to not to promote our promote, yeah, we do appreciate it very much, you know, you don't get walking around, it's just, it's just marvelous to live promotion, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's incredible to yourself, and to those involved as well, it's the facility is just fantastic, well I suppose it's no use, you know, I always hate, it's no use to have a facility of people that aren't using this, and that's the thing, it's, it's nearly hard to keep that diary in order, there's so much demand for space, you know, and it's because the space is so rice, and comfortable, and you know, and thank God, and so many times we've, we've done it now, and I don't think we'll ever look for a grant for anything in this country, you know, it's actually, you'll find something, I won't, it's actually a great relief not to be, not to be talking for money, it is, yeah, because we spent 10 years looking for money, and it's an awful, it's big, it's strange, and to worry, and you know, yeah, and not to end up in decent, you know, those kind of things, like, I mean, this is, uh, from locals, you can say thanks to God, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we got out the other individual, and he's all worked out, and we did to anyone, anything, then you can go and enjoy it, yeah, and you can, yeah, and say we won't be on that, the pressure, the pressure is half a bit, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it, thanks very much, thanks very much for coming in, uh, and the rest of the week, and we might see you over some of our events, yeah, you know, we'd love to come, if you want to come and, um, record any of it, or, you know, you're always very welcome, and connect with me here, lovely, thank you very much, thank you very much, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and the rest of the week with your, your, your, um, classes and, uh, consults and all you on the, thank you.
