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Europe’s Biggest Dance Radio Show

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On Friday 11 October RTÉ 2FM will join with radio stations from France, UK, Belgium, Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands to host Europe’s Biggest Dance Show.

The marathon dance show kicks off on 11 October at 7pm with an hour from BBC Radio 1 (Annie Mac), who then hands over to other European Broadcasting Union radio stations for each country to present one hour. At 11pm 2FM’s DJ Jenny Greene will host one hour of live dance music with guest DJ sets from renowned Irish DJs George Feely and Sunil Sharpe.

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2fm Rising List 2018 – New Irish Music

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The 2fm Rising list is a culmination of an incredible year of music on 2FM which included our various live events with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, our best selling u2 Joshua Tree ‘New Roots’ charity album and our new partnership with the RTÉ Choice Music prize.

The strength of the list previews what an exciting year lies ahead for the Irish music industry. The breath of sounds and styles from these great Irish acts is stunning.

For full details and to hear some of these exciting new Irish acts, log onto 2fm.ie/rising18.

2fm Live at Electric Picnic 2017

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What an incredible finale to 2fm Live, our week long celebration of live Irish music.

2FM’s DJ MO K and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra performed ‘The Story of Hip Hop’ at Friday nights Electric Picnic, accompanied by guest vocalists Mango Dassie, Erica Cody, Jafaris and Jess from BARQ. The party continued afterward with 2FM’s Jenny Greene with the Concert Orchestra once more performing a ’90s club classic set with vocalist Gemma Sugrue.

First review in from The Irish Times “Perfect festival formula; musical prowess and unadulterated pop fun. An absolute triumph”

Massive congratulations to the entire RTÉ team!

2fm Rising – New Irish Music

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One of our new Irish music initiatives on 2fm is called ‘2fm Rising’. Each week we choose a number of tracks that receive daytime airplay and depending on listener reaction make it to our regular 2fm playlist. The quality this year so far has been nothing short of outstanding.

Here’s 5 of the current batch that we are really excited about.

Glory – Dermot Kennedy

Nobody Like U – Siights

Give it Up – Cities

Miss You in the Dark – Rews

All Or Nothing – Wild Youth

RTÉ2fm Music Highlights

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Well what an unbelievable weekend of music content on RTÉ2fm! Friday saw arguably the world’s biggest music star Ed Sheeran co-present our drive show in a one hour special with Eoghan McDermott. On Sunday U2, in a world exclusive premiered their 2017 version of “Red Hill Mining Town” on the Dave Fanning show to commemorate The Joshua Tree’s 30th anniversary.

Bank Holiday Monday saw 2fm broadcast a new batch of music documentaries, one on Irish singer/songwriter Gavin James and another on “Cork Rocks”, looking back on the Cork music showcases of the 90’s. Finally 2fm as part of Cruinniú na Cásca, a Creative Ireland initiative presented by RTÉ broadcast live from Smithfield Square in Dublin with live performances from a whole host of new Irish acts including The Academic, Soulé, Aine Cahill & many more.

The excitement continues this week with 2fm Live – Jenny Greene & RTÉ Concert Orchestra performing this Friday night at Dublin’s 3 Arena!!