Collection HBR-18629 - Harry Bradshaw Collection

Bradshaw, Harry. (1947– ). Radio producer, researcher, record producer. Born Bray, Co. Wicklow. In 1965 he took up employment in recording at Dublin’s Éamonn Andrews Studios, then at film and sound work, while taking night classes in telecommunications and electronics. He joined RTÉ in 1968, where he did sound for Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s early RTÉ recordings, and Nóirín Ní Riain’s 1978 Seinn Aililiú. Associated with The Long Note radio programme, he became its producer in 1978, in this series devoting time to making field recordings of musicians throughout Ireland and to documentary features on traditional music subjects. He also produced a folklore series, Folkland, Music of the People and – his best-known achievement – The Irish Phonograph series, featuring 78 rpm recordings from the 1920s and ’30s and presented by Nicholas Carolan. The two also collaborated on the 1986 John McKenna – His Original Recordings. He produced the 1988 album Bunch of Keys which has the contents of nine acetate discs of uilleann piper Johnny Doran which were originally recorded in 1947; the 1990 Gravel Walks has Donegal fiddler Mickey Doherty. Both were Breathnach, Breandán 83 published by Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann. In 1989 he started his own label Viva Voce to market re-mastered 78s; the James Morrison – The Professor fiddle album was his first release, next was Fluters of Old Erin, then Michael Coleman 1891–1945, Packie Dolan and a Flanagan Brothers reissue. He worked half time on a joint RTÉ/ITMA project which transferred and catalogued the bulk of RTÉ radio’s traditional music archive tapes into a 300-cd catalogue designed to make the material easily accessible to the public. He was employed also by the ‘Ceol’ commercial music-heritage project in Smithfield, Dublin 1999–2001. He left RTÉ in 2003 and set up his own independent production unit providing specialist recording and remastering facilities and has produced a wide variety of titles, many in traditional music, for record companies and broadcasters. Brady, Paul. (1947– ).