{"id":20160,"date":"2022-06-23T03:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T02:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/songtales-sa-speir\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T03:02:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T02:02:38","slug":"songtales-sa-speir","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/songtales-sa-speir\/","title":{"rendered":"SongTales sa Sp\u00e9ir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>SongTales sa Sp<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"FR\" xml:lang=\"FR\"><span><span><span>\u00e9<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span>ir<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span><span><span> is a new and exciting pilot initiative from Ceol Connected and a consortium of partners which aims to invigorate and build upon County Monaghan\u2019s strong ecosystem of traditional arts for children. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span><span><span>During June, a team of musicians will travel across the county in a specially converted mobile stage! Via their fully kitted-out SongTales van, \u00c1ine McGeeney (fiddle\/vocals), Thomas Johnston (whistle\/vocals), Se\u00e1n O\u2019Meara (guitar\/voices), Stephen Markham (keys\/sound design), and Kevin Meehan (whistles) will bring music, songs and stories from Ceol Connected\u2019s TREEHOUSE production to children across a range of school and preschool settings. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span><span><span>As a pilot initiative, funded through the Arts Council\u2019s Capacity Building Support Scheme with additional support from the Creative Ireland Programme and Monaghan County Council, research and learning have been an integral part of the process.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span><span><span>Partners are <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Creative Monaghan, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span><span><span>Music Generation Cavan\/Monaghan, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span>\u00cdontas Theatre, Local Arts in Education Partnership, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span><span><span>National Childcare Network and 12 schools\/preschools from across the county.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20161,"template":"","class_list":["post-20160","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SongTales sa Sp\u00e9ir - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SongTales sa Sp\u00e9ir is a new and exciting pilot initiative from Ceol Connected and a consortium of partners which aims to invigorate and build upon County Monaghan\u2019s strong ecosystem of traditional arts for children.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/songtales-sa-speir\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SongTales sa Sp\u00e9ir - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SongTales sa Sp\u00e9ir is a new and exciting pilot initiative from Ceol Connected and a consortium of partners which aims to invigorate and build upon County Monaghan\u2019s strong ecosystem of traditional arts for children. 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