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This week Marie-Louise Kerr speaks to Cathie Boyd, internationally respected director, producer and curator, founder of Cryptic, home of audiovisual art and experimentation in Glasgow and creator of Sonica Festival, dedicated to world-class audiovisual art, about how she got started in the industry, from reaching out to Brian Friel and Kenneth Branagh for money to help fund her projects and her passion for supporting artists to reach international recognition; musician, writer, lecturer and researcher on traditional music Fintan Vallely, talks about releasing the third has released the third edition of his major published work ‘Companion to Irish Traditional Music’, now an 960-page encyclopaedia of Irish traditional music and its related cultures, how he got into traditional music, and how the music has changed over the years; and Aoife Boyle, co-founder of a new creative commissioning and producing company, based in Derry, who work collaboratively in the heart of the community to facilitate arts opportunities that unite communities, support the creative infrastructure and engage people of all ages, chats about the need for more community arts initiatives and the importance of reaching out to underrepresented communities.