Oban Mod will be broadcast live on BBC ALBA
BBC ALBA will be broadcasting daily programmes live from The Royal National Mod in Oban.
The Mod, organised by An Comunn Gidhealach, is the Gaelic community's most prestigious celebration of arts, music, culture and language and this year's festival takes place in Oban, the hometown of the first ever Mod back in 1892.
BBC Gidhlig will be producing a premier package of live hour-long programmes covering the daily highlights throughout the festival from Monday 12 to Friday 16 October.
Each live programme will be broadcast at 9.00pm on BBC ALBA and repeated that night at 11.20pm on BBC Two Scotland with a shorter, 45 minute review programme transmitting at 2.15pm the following day on BBC One Scotland.
The programmes will include performances from each day's competitions and coverage of the prize-winner's concerts as well as the premier solo and choral competitions which are the highlight of the latter end of the week.
BBC Gidhlig will also be producing a premier package for Radio nan Gidheal with 30 hours of live radio coverage. Some material will also feature in 'D a-nis?' the award winning children's Gaelic language television programme for seven to 11 year olds.
Tony Kearney, actor and TV producer, and the highly acclaimed singer and musician, Mary Ann Kennedy will present the daily television programmes.
Tony said: "I'm delighted to be presenting the Mod with Mary Anne again this year. Oban is a fantastic venue being such a major port from the islands. I last competed as a singer at the Oban Mod nearly 19 years ago so this will be a trip down memory lane for me. Mary Anne and I both have Mod backgrounds so it's great to be part of it all again and be involved in the fantastic coverage that the BBC always provides."
BBC ALBA's weather presenter, Kirsteen MacDonald, who will be competing at Oban, has won the prestigious women's Gold Medal at the Royal National Mod in 2006 and won the women's traditional medal last year in Falkirk.
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Friday 25 May 2012
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