Episode 3 Féilte is Fleadh

JIG PLAYS

The only one thing I'm going to suggest

is when the fourth group joins in,

we are all going to turn and face the same direction.

Is it facing the clock?

Face the clock?

Let's...

Face the walls.

Face the walls?

-Back to the clock.

-Back to the clock.

THEY LAUGH

Let's do that again.

Left leg in, go.

MUSIC: "Genesis" by Grimes

I've done it before with county Fleadhs

and provincial Fleadhs.

I always find it's very stressful because

you're running to a very tight deadline.

It usually takes up to ten days for the books to be produced

at the earliest

once you submit it and once you've had it proofed

and make sure nobody's left out

and there will always be somebody left out as far as I can see.

Everything there?

Yep...hopefully.

I'll not know until people start saying "where's this?"

or "where's that?" but you can only do your best.

I think people are really positive about it,

sending out a good message

and I'm just happy it went so well

and I'm really looking forward to the Fleadh

and hopefully that positive message will filter out

and people will come to Derry and support it.

And I think they will. I think people

will come, even if it's only for the curiosity factor

of what it's going to be like in Derry,

first time in the North and all that, but that's OK.

That's great.

MUSIC: "Sweet Disposition" by The Tender Trap

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

I was just passing the Town Hall Square

and came across it by accident, really.

It was kind of a meshing of two different forms of dance.

I think it worked very well.

We'll have a team of volunteers

who are Irish speakers as well.

Because obviously they're local

and there's people coming from West Clare, Cork,

Waterford, Limerick, who've never been to Derry before

and it's great they meet people and they're Irish speakers as well.

# In a few weeks I will get time... #

My name is Marion Doherty.

I'm originally from Greysteel.

I emigrated to Australia 31 years ago.

I'm here specifically for the Fleadh,

just arrived two days ago.

Everyone's asking questions

and looking to know

and the whole town's had a lick of paint.

It's really, really good for Derry and the whole place has been uplifted, almost.

Looking forward to the Fleadh.

I live in Dublin, from the States originally.

I want to come and listen to some good trad,

for the craic, as we say.

Looking forward to the Fleadh, yes. can't wait.

I think it's great for the city that they have

different types of music coming in

and people from all over Ireland joining together.

MUSIC: "Swim" by Surfer Blood

I am excited to see the Colmcille.

It is the largest currach in the world.

It still looks great anyway, so I'm happy with it.

It feels really great to see all this hard work paid off

and we can see the boats on the water now

and everything's going to plan so I'm quite happy about that.

There's a lot of hard work with them.

It's a good sense of occasion. There's a lot of people here today.

The weather's not the best

but the people of Derry turned out in their crowds as usual.

We're going to get a few of the currachs and lift them

out of the water and the pageant will start at about a quarter-past four

so we'll lift them out of the water, bring them over to

go into the back of the pageant which will make its way up the Strand Road into the Guildhall,

which is the second part of the opening ceremony

before Michael D Higgins officially opens the Fleadh

on the stage at around 5pm.

Would you have a cead mile failte for your Deputy first Minister, Martin McGuinness.

Enjoy the week. It's going to be absolutely

fabulous, the weather's going to be unbelievably good...

CHEERING

But most of all, thank yourselves

because none of this would have been possible

without your support,

your support for the peace process

and your support for the ending of division

in this city.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

THEY PLAY AN IRISH REEL

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

The issues were resolved because the dance

was important

and all issues can be resolved because culture is important.

BELLS PEAL

And because music is important.

And you must always have respect for the bells.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

We've got the best tent!

Tent number one!

THEY CHEER

Tent number one!

IRISH REEL PLAYS

Derry's done a great job,

absolutely beautiful!

CROWD SINGS

Fantastic! It's the best event of the City of Culture year so far.

IRISH REEL PLAYS

I'd love to see it coming back again.

I think it's fantastic for this city.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

The Pride of the Orange and Blue.

FLUTE MUSIC PLAYS

The Pride of the Orange and Blue are my local band

so I decided I would go down and see them, and we've made connections

with them over the years,

and asked them if they'd let me write a play

about them, so they're happy to be represented.

We've done a lot of outreach work

and the Fleadh picked up the phone and said,

"Can we have this?" The Fleadh's all about traditional music

and this is a very big movement

of traditional music in Northern Ireland

so that seemed to be a natural progression.

It's very pleasing to see this number of people

actually wants to see what goes on.

Everybody thinks it's a closed shop but it's not.

No, it's open

and I hope they'll all come away with a different attitude

towards the bands.

So this is a first for us

with the Fleadh, and hopefully

everybody will enjoy it.

-Just a wee bit like Dad says.

-That'll be great.

This city is leading the way as an example to many others

and the proof of that is the way in which the people of the city

came together to make the argument for the Fleadh

and I think here tonight we have people from every part of the city

and it's great to see at the play

a huge number of people from the Unionist

part of the city sitting very comfortably alongside

the rest of us. It's tremendous!

THEY PLAY IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC

First of all, welcome to Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann in Derry.

We had a great opening ceremony yesterday.

If you're interested in Irish language,

there's an Irish language walking tour tomorrow morning

and there's intensive Irish language classes

at Culturlann Ui Chanain, the Irish language venue for Derry.

THEY PLAY IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC

All fiddle, fourth floor, up in the Tower Building.

Parents information at 11am if you want to come.

I think the main thing was that I had a really strong

volunteer team to help me with that.

They were in their places,

they've been more than good in doing anything

and everything I've asked them,

so I can't thank my volunteer team enough

for the support they gave me today.

HE PLAYS BLUES

THEY PLAY AN IRISH REEL

..We're taking it and it's coming back home

to roost here

in Derry, stroke London...stroke Derry.

It would be great if you were a bit higher up and I was shorter

cos there's about four foot of difference between us...

It's like I'm saying, "Don't stand up," but you ARE standing up.

Look, I can jump.

Have you ever thought about why Limavady's called Limavady?

"Lim" is the leg of the dog.

No, it's the jump of the dog. You need legs to jump, you're close.

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