Dave Fanning has a radio show on RTE Radio 2FM and recently held a competition with a prize of a James Taylor guitar valued at £2000 and four VIP tickets for the James Taylor Plus concert in Kilkenny yesterday. Well so what.
The winner had to create their own unique instrument and play and sing two tunes on it.
Well Mark Donegan, brother of Daithi Rua (see Entertainment section) got a clothes hanger and used the frame to support a set of spanners to make up a scale of chords to create a Spanjo and played Jingle Bells and another tune to win the prize. Mark took his brother Tony, his Aunt Olive and Music Music comrade Colin Killeen along to the concert in Kilkenny yesterday for the concert which was very enjoyable.
This evening on Dave Fanning show Mark has been invited to perform once again on the Spanjo so have a listen on 2FM between 6.00pm and 7.30pm.Overseas readers may find it under unison