Claare ny Gael 5th May 2024

On 5th May 1830 Thomas Edward Brown was born in New Bond Street, Douglas. Dollin Kelly's one-man tour de force performance of T E Brown's poem, 'Betsy Lee', which he took to the Edinburgh Festival, was recorded by Charles Guard for the Manx Heritage Foundation in 1992. That is now available on the Culture Vannin website. We hear Dollin Kelly and the opening section of 'Betsy Lee'.

A locksmith has just opened the door of the house in Piccadilly bought by Count Dracula and the party assembles to search the house for boxes of Transylvanian soil and for any further clues they can find. Another episode from the translation into the Manx Gaelic of the famous book by Bram Stoker.

As y kiaull vees ry chlashtyn -

CHRISTINE BREGAZZI & FENELLA BAZIN - White foxglove

AR LOG - Can yr cardi

NUALA KENNEDY - Hop jigs

BRENDA WOOTTON - Dus tre

WE4 - Na hoscail do bheola

BARON & ANNEIX - Polka piquee

CLASH VOOAR - Hi haw hum

GWILYM MORUS - Traffig

NUALA KENNEDY - The new shoes