 A six piece band here and we've got Colin Mogue, how are you? We've got Saeve, am I saying that right? Yeah, that's good, that's good. And Colin of course. Cormac, hello to you. Hello. And Ifa. Hello. And the boss of the house, Sinead. Hello, how are you? Yeah, very welcome. It's lovely to see you. And it's great, you know, once again, the fam, I love seeing fams because you get a sense of passion with the music, you know, and how long has this been going on? Is this from the children? And funds are what way they've worked, Sinead? Well, I suppose, myself and Colin play in a band called Arkaneus, so we used to be practising in the house when the kids were very small. They had no choice, they were just part of it from an early age. As a matter of fact, Cormac here came on tour with us about 15 years ago. We did a tour of Germany and Austria for about two and a half months and Cormac actually learned to crawl in a German hotel. So there's a claim to fame. And how did you find Germany? Brilliant, I was a great tourer now. It's great, it's great, Germany and Austria, like France and Belgium and that, there's a great love of Irish music. It seems to be just unbelievable. And you haven't, have you toured much since then? Done pieces now, little bits and pieces now. Yeah, I liked it because it was, like you said, in France and we would have been out to Lorry on a couple of times at the band and we're kind of back on the road again now, so we're in bits and pieces now all over the place for the next year or two, so we might be back into you in another entity soon enough, you never know. You know yourself, Colin, the door's open here, you're more than welcome, but you know what we'll do, we'll go into piece of music first, if you don't mind, and then we'll go and talk to you all and I love that, I love that, what do you call it, push button? Close enough. That's lovely, beautiful. So the first piece of music you're going to do first is... IFA, do you want to say what it's called? IFA. Peggy a little more. Well, whenever you're ready. Absolutely beautiful. Well sung indeed, IFA and the family joining in as well and Cormac, I have to say, brilliant on the alien pipes. Thank you. And how long are you playing them? I've been playing them for seven or eight years. They're a very difficult instrument to learn, aren't they? I suppose they were, but once you get used to it, you grant. You find it no baller. And tell me this, you do a bit of writing as well, don't you? I do a bit, anyway, yeah. And this next piece you're going to do first after a minute when we talk, will you wrote that yourself? Yeah, I have, I've written it myself, yeah. And what's it called? It's called Pisa Nisha. Because Nisha is my godson and I wanted to buy a piece of music as a gift because I didn't have any money, so... LAUGHTER But you know, probably I didn't do that. I might do it after my wife at Christmas, I might write her a song. But Cormac, that's actually beautiful, you know. That's a lovely thing to do because they'll have that piece of music forever. And there's very few people can say they own a piece, you know what I mean? They have it for them. That's lovely, that's a beautiful thing to do. My little neighbours are up there with you tonight and they're absolutely brilliant, especially Ifa. She's a real star, well done. My shiv from Maeve and Jared McGinley. Oh! Oh! No, I wouldn't be able to say that. And my shiv... What? ...Gramore. And that's from Maria Rush. Well done, Maria, thank you. Trudy Nidono. Said, yep! My shiv, Joel. Oh! Yes, Trudy's a great supporter of Irish music, and of course she is. But do you gig as a family column? Sure, look, we do in bits. You know what I mean? I suppose you'd hear us more in our own kitchens than you would anywhere else but that. No, we're beginning to get out of it now. I suppose during Covid, really, we were putting a lot of stuff out there just for the crack, really. We were putting up videos of people singing and that kind of crack. How did that go for you? We weren't doing it for any purpose. But at the same time, there was a message in it too, and it left a lot of them there. It was a challenge to, you know, get us all to learn the piece of music. Did you find, Sonia, did you find that time doing that? Did you were getting messages from people near and far? Absolutely, and you were connecting with my brother in Abu Dhabi as well. So it was kind of connecting with him and, you know, relations even. You weren't allowed to go within two kilometres from your house, so you were connecting with your friends. You know, when that epidemic was here, as you say, your family away, they can't come to see you. And that there is just bringing it on home. It's a beautiful thing to do. That's lovely. Have you recorded anything or anything? Well, I suppose when I'm calling with him, we play a lot for family occasions as well, you know, like we had two weddings, this summer, my brother and our neighbour there, and so we kind of played a lot for those. You know, that's, you know, before the meal and you know, get to the atmosphere. Yeah, it's nice. See if I get married again, will you? We will, yeah. I could get us going now. I'll put a note down there. Next week. You'd have to deal with our agent, Ifa. She's very tough now when you're talking. Oh, that's right. Ifa, I'll be in touch with you and you can sort out something. But I'm not getting married, I'm quite happily married. Just in case you're wondering. But it's lovely, it's great to see. We've seen you, and how do you find that? You seem to enjoy it, you seem to enjoy it. Oh, it's great crack, I loved it. Yeah, it is great, it is great. And it was raining, but it didn't dampen the atmosphere. Did you make enough money out of it? That's the important thing. You get a couple of pounds. Six of us, we got it. We got it in between the six of us. I think we definitely made a fiver each to me with great crack. That's good going, that's good going, that's good going. So what's the plan going forward then, calling me? What are we doing? We don't have big plans, but it's just, I suppose it is something that we enjoy doing, getting together and playing as a family. And you know, we've been kind of looking off it. They said people have asked us to do things here and there and we love doing it and it's a bit of crack. It's brilliant, it's brilliant. It is, and it keeps us from arguing, you know. Which is half the fact. Hello, Branix, from all your cousins are listening in from Coral Lee. Oh, Coral Lee, Martin and the Cruise. Oh, brilliant. There we go, best wishes from Nana and Grandad and Mick Liston and Derry Connor. Very good. And of course the best luck to Jessica and Junior Eurovision, of course. And best wishes to the Branix family. Where did that one go to me? Just disappeared there. Where am I? Well done, everyone from Fiona, Cairn and the Guards. Mighty stuff. Oh, thank you. Five nights in Croke Park, here we come. No, we have to talk to the residents first. But we'll come back to that one. And Marion Kornes is my chef, Coole. What's that? Galanta? Galanta, I can see. He's all fluent Irish? That's beautiful. Lovely. I'm not even fluent English. I have to agree, great singers, yes. And thank you very much indeed. And what a beautiful family and fantastic music. Of course they are. So thank you very much. That's from Deirdre Dory. Thank you very much indeed, Deirdre. But do you practice much? Or is it just... Funny, when the kids were smaller, we met this brilliant paper called Mick O'Brien at a wedding. And Mick O'Brien and his wife are dumping over there. And their children are just all Ireland champions. Now they're amazing musicians. So we were asking them, do you get them to practice every day? All the questions you were asking us about or how did you get them to love the music so much. And they said, just take them out of the cases, have them at their level. You know, like a toy box now. And have them in and let them just pick them up if they want them. But have them accessible. And that's what we did. We had, kind of in a playroom, we had like little guitars, little fiddles, tiny tin whistles, barons, drums, percussion instruments. And like our own play did it. And even friends that came in, they'd be banging away at them. And it was just that they were always around, you know, like a toy. And they said, where they do it. And Colin Mogue, you're on the, what are you on the guitar? The banjo? I'm on the banjo. I'll bring that down here. You're the banjo and tin whistle. And you love playing them, do you? How long are you yourself taught in the banjo? No. My father and Paul Haugen taught me. Oh, very good. You were playing brilliantly, I have to say. And of course, the concertina. Beautiful instrument, isn't it? Thank you. Is that a new one or an old one? Yeah, it's a relatively new one now. So we kind of invested in it. Well, I say we invested in it. But it's, yeah, it's very, very special one now. I think I'll have it for the rest of my life. It's difficult to play? Yeah, it's a Swatner one. From Germany. Oh, is it from Germany? Oh my God. And family on Highland from Jennifer and Mum. Danu, is that right? Oh my gosh, Danu. Very nice. So Danu is the girl's choir that's the Saviour's Paratown. Oh, you're part of the choir? Yeah, Danu, Young Women's Choir, under Douglas Cairns, where I think there's about 45 of us girls from 13 to 18. From Donegal. We're basically competing in a massive choral festival in New York in January this January, so it's very exciting. It's amazing stuff now, so... Brilliant. Well done. Oh, gee, I'll never say that. My show, the Brannock, great musicians and great tracklist, and then from Dublin, Gramoore, Ashley and Steve, Gerroi and Charlotte. Oh, good one. Apologies for my lack of Irish because I learned it from a different angle. Beat into me and it didn't work. Beautiful talent of family. My show from the Gallowers in Garton. Sure, Mike of Garton. No, I would love to, and I've tried it, and I had a job previous to this in the fire service for a long time, and I went to different lessons in it, and the next thing in me bleeper would go, and I must have lessons, and I'd come back and there were... No, it was just too much of me. And it's a sort of regret I have, you know? Brannock sounding great. And Carrie listening to Saif and gang. Loud and clear and Ballyholy. Ballyholy. We had Mrs. Ballyholy up there a month ago, leaving off a poster for the big tractor event. We're going to tell you more about that coming up on Sunday, the 22nd of October, and myself and Jimmy will be there, but don't let that put you off. Right, we're going to get another piece of music, and this is Cormac's own written piece, and we are really looking forward to hearing this. So whenever you're ready, we're ready.