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Anam An Amhráin (TV Series)

A 5  part series produced by Cartoon Saloon in conjunction with Sónta Productions for TG4 including 10 animated Gaelic songs.

Click on the images below to view clips from the series.

Anam AnAmhráin sees us animate new interpretations of 12 old Irish songs such as An Gréasaí Bróg, Tá Dhá Ghabhairín Bhuí Agam and Óro Sé do Bheatha Abhaile.

All songs are produced by Iarla O’Lionard and Kieran Lynch. Contemporary artists such as Paul Brady, Nell Ni Chróinín and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh have recorded some of the tracks and animation is now complete. The show will premiere on Irish station TG4 over Christmas week, starting December 20th.

The series will be available on DVD in 2010.

TG4 schedule:
Prog. 1 (Poc ar Buille & Bean Phaidín) – Sunday 20/12 @ 22:00, repeat on Tuesday 29/12 @ 10:30

Prog. 2 (Greasaí Bróg & Seanduine) – Friday 25/12 @ 18:50, repeat on Wednesday 30/12 @ 10:30

Prog. 3 (Cadé Sindon té Sin & An Damhán Alla) – Sunday 27/12 @ 18:50, repeat on Thursday 31/12 @ 10:30

Prog. 4 -(Oró – Dún do Shúil) Wednesday 30/12 @ 24:05, , repeat on Friday 1/1 @ 10:30

Prog. 5 – (Cailleach an Airgead – Tá an dha Ghabhrín bhuí) Saturday 2/1 @ 11:35 -

Full info on Series:

Favourite Irish songs reworked and animated

In this brand new TG4 music series, award winning singer Iarla Ó Lionáird takes a trip to meet friends and to bring us a lively rearrangement of some of the Irish songs that we all know.  Each performance will be enhanced by specially created animations  visualising the story of each of the featured popular songs.

The series is coproduced for TG4 by Sónta Teo, an independent production company based in Conamara and Cartoon Saloon, one of Ireland’s best known animation companies.  Cúilín Dualach, a previous innovative collaboration between these two companies, garnered a host of national and international awards.

Iarla Ó Lionáird  is one of our most acclaimed singers and has performed worldwide as a solo performer and as lead singer with the Afro Celt Sound System  at venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, The Royal Opera House in London, at The Sydney Opera House and in Cape Town, Rome and Tokyo.

In this series, he is staying much closer to home as he journeys through Ireland to meet other popular singers to watch as they can breathe new life into some old favourites in performances that will form part of a totally new creative version of the song when fused with the new animations.

He then meets up with Connemara troubadour John Beag Ó Flatharta who sings a new version of the local classic Bean Pháidín. (20 Dec. 10pm).

On Christmas Day’s programme Iarla meets with West Kerry native, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, lead singer with the famed group Danú, and she sings Gréasaí Brógand neighbour Séamus Ó Beaglaoich sings his version of An Seanduine(Christmas Day 6.50pm).

Iarla continues on his journey in the third episode and meets Donegal sisters Maighread & Tríona Ní Dhomhnaillwho sing a new rendering of their well known  Cad é sin don té sin? a song they made famous in the 1970s with the ground-breaking group Skara Brae. He also meets Declan O’Rourke who records a new version of the humourous  An Damhán Alla. (27 Dec 6.50pm)

In the fourth programmeIarla meets Paul Brady who sings one of the country’s favourite national school songs Óró sé do bheatha ‘bhaile. He also meets Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, lead singer with Altan, who records Dúin do Shúil.This programme also contains an animated version of Bleán na Bó,Tomás Mac Eoin’s hilarious composition about his Conamara cow that would not yield milk when sung sean-nós but that filled buckets when milked to the raucous sounds of rock ‘n roll. (30 Dec just past midnight).

Damien Dempsey and Róisín Elsaftydo a duet of the rollicking Cailleach an Airgid in the final programme and Nell Ní Chróinín offers her own insightful version of Tá Dhá Ghabhairín Bhuí Agam (02 Jan 11.35am).