Bat Kinane comes out on top at Sean Mc Carthy Ballad Competition
Bat Kinane has been crowned the winner of the 2014 Sean Mc Carthy Ballad Competition held at Finuge, Co. Kerry, 20 years after the inaugural event.
Twelve composers were chosen from all entries and performed with the Wicklow native coming out on top with his work ‘Mary’.
“It was a great feeling to win a competition in honour of songwriting legend Sean Mc Carthy and also to perform in front of one of Ireland’s greatest and most successful songwriters, Brendan Graham who compered the event. Earlier this year I attended a seminar at IMRO hosted by Brendan and little did I know then that I would get a chance to perform in front of him and get his seal of approval for my song. I am also thankful to IMRO for all the songwriting seminars they have put on in the past year or so. I got to put the knowledge I learned from those seminars by Brendan Graham, Ralph Murphy, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Pat Pattison into practical use when I wrote ‘Mary’.”
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Photograph taken by Marc Leach
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