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Peace Performance, Youth Awards, Junk Couture, String Ninjas

A 12-year-old student performs "Peace" after reading it to Bill Clinton earlier this week, and John visits the Lower Ormeau to see how an alleyway was transformed into Miracle Way.

Twelve-year-old student Elena Gourley joins John in the studio to perform her award winning "Peace" which she read in front of Bill Clinton to mark the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement earlier in the week. Also in the studio are Jessica James and Darragh McSloy short listed for an award at the Irish Music Youth Awards in Dublin next week. They'll be performing "Broken Promise" about Jessica's own experience of being bullied. Two students from the City of Armagh High School will be showing off their amazing costumes created for the Junk Couture Awards, made out of materials ranging from orange peel, apple pips and old skipping ropes. There'll be live music from the String Ninjas who are performing at the Ards Guitar Festival, John will be visiting the Lower Ormeau alleyway which has been transformed by residents and students from Queen's University to create their Miracle Way and as it's coffee week next week Paula McIntyre''s cooking coffee baked beans on toast with bacon, tomato and molasses.

57 minutes

Last on

Sat 14 Apr 2018 11:03