#2 - Ray Blackwell - Co.Cork

Ray Blackwell owns and runs De Barra's Folk Club in Clonakilty, Co.Cork. DeBarra's is a family run traditional Irish pub in West Cork that is also one of the best music venues in the country. Long standing associations with Noel Redding (the Jimi Hendrix Experience) Paddy Keenan (The Bothy Band) & Folk artists Christy Moore & Roy Harper have served as the cornerstones of this little venues world wide renown as one of the finest music house’s in Ireland. In these three decades musicians from all genres & generations have fed into the Folk Club’s magical history, with almost every performance seemingly woven into the brickwork of its worn, familiar walls.

In this conversation we hear from Ray what it takes to be the keeper of the flame for DeBarra's and some of the quirks that come along with running such a business in West Cork.

The song from this weeks episode is entitled "Poorman's Kilkee".