Farmers going to the Country!

COUNTRY music has always been so much associated with rural Ireland that it seems natural that a newspaper such as The Irish Farmers Journal should launch a column on this type of music and the Irish Country Sound pages were launched in the publication last week. The Country music pages will now be a weekly feature in the newspaper and the first week featured an interview with the King of Country Music, Big Tom McBride. The Irish Country Sound pages are edited by Mayo journalist, broadcaster and songwriter Michael Commins and photographs are by Mary Donican who also writes a gig guide section for the pages. Michael Commins is no stranger to doing a Country column in a national publication as he contributed a Country music page in The Irish Press for a number of years and in more recent times he wrote the Country column in The Irish Daily Mirror