Oh Yeah - Charlotte Dryden and Paul Kane

On this episode the story of the Oh Yeah music centre with Charlotte Dryden and Paul Kane. There's music from Hand Models, Reevah, Strange New Places and Cut in Blinks. In June, it will be 10 years since Charlotte Dryden started working in Belfast's Oh Yeah music centre. She and the founder Stuart Bailie began on the same day, although Stu had been driving the project since early 2006 and doors opened to music in 2007. Charlotte's now the Chief Executive of this remarkable organisation which manages a careful balance between celebrating the history of music from Northern Ireland and developing new music, young musicians and music business talent. Stuart has moved on and we'll be hearing from him on the next episode. The Oh Yeah building in the cobbled streets of Belfast's Cathedral Quarter once a warehouse – is now an exhibition, performance space, a recording studio, offices from where people promoting music business work. And there's a bar and cafe. As well as music events, Oh Yeah runs courses for talent development, music business development, youth outreach and a whole lot more. And it ain't just for kids. Paul Kane is the Outreach Development Officer – one of his jobs is to manage the Older People's Project. He joined Charlotte and me in the David McWilliams room to look back over 10 years and to look forward. The Oh Yeah website has plenty of information about what's going on in the centre. And if you were a female punk you might want to get in contact with them and tell your story.

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Oh Yeah - Charlotte Dryden and Paul Kane is an episode from Davy Sims's Podcast by Davy Sims.

This episode is 52:18 long.

This episode was published on Apr 26, 2018.

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