Return of Geantraí a welcome Christmas present for trad music fans
Pauline Scanlon and Ciarán Ó Gealbháin on Geantraí na Nollag on TG4, Christmas Day.
A generation of Irish traditional musicians has grown up watching Geantraí, yet for those young people, the TG4 series may represent not so much a contemporary pub seisiún as an archive of vintage recordings.
Though the flagship music programme has rarely been off television screens since it was first broadcast in 1996, the year of the station’s inception as TnaG, its popularity has been sustained by fans re-watching favourite recordings, some featuring musicians and singers who have since passed away.
