Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, Meet Dr. Aileen Dillane  - 00:59

Part II, Programming Festivals - 17:35

Part III, Inclusivity in Festivals Since the Lockdown - 26:22

Part IV, Limerick Soundscapes Project - 34:28

Part V, Vernacularity of the Soundscapes Project - 48:03

Outro - 53:55

• Planxty Sir Festus Burke

Dr. Aileen Dillane is an ethnomusicologist, Global Irish musics specialist, and Popular Music scholar with research interests in ethnicity, identity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the traditional and popular musics of Ireland, UK, North America, and Australia; Music Festivals and Cultural Diversity; Music and Migration; Urban Soundscapes and Critical Citizenship; Protest music. PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of Chicago. (Fulbright Scholar and Century Fellow). PI on FestiVersities, HERA-funded research project on European Music Festivals (2019-2021). Co-Founder/Co-Director of LimerickSoundscapes; Popular Music & Popular Culture @UL; Power, Discourse and Society @UL. Member of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies. Course Director, MA Irish Music Studies. Follow her on  Twitter.

For more information, please see his University of Limerick Bio.

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