some mighty fine sessions in the last while! Tommy McPeak of McPeak family’s fame joined us last Friday in Padraicin’s in Furbo: the finest harmony singing I have heard in a long time! Amazing! The Sunday session in the Droighnean Donn in Spiddal has been wonderful too! sun is shining; I even heard a blackbird singing :-

It was the loveliest of sessions in the Droighneann Donn last Sunday, with a surprise visit /tune by Bride Harper and Mary Bergin

Delighted that John Kelly , one of my long time favourite radio presenters, played a track of I Can Hear You Calling (Stranger in the Garden and Ways of the World as the opening track on his show. You can listen back here
(I know….. it is a bit delayed….too much going on at the minute!! …Time a la Kurt Vonnegut!)

It was such a lovely gig at the Clifden Arts Festival. Nicest of listening crowds at Mullarkey’s. And we made it home before the big storm! Connemara Community Radio came along and recorded the concert live and will be airing bits and pieces on the radio over the next few weeks. Hoping to post some audio here soon too…

finally back up and running; the website had been down due to a website migration issue. phew! sessions over the weekend and Clifden Arts Festival this Monday, 10pm. Looking forward.

Had an amazing time in Germany. Great gigs. Super audiences. Lovely, lovely hot weather. Off to Padraicin’s tonight for tunes with Steve Sweeney and Ged Foley. Enjoying early autumn back on the Green Isle:-

Beautiful Concert in Lissa last Friday with Bernd Lüdtke. Here a few pix. Coming up this Friday Murray & Falkenau in Löbnitz in the amazing medieval church there. Also looking forward to returning to the Alte Klosterkirche in Oschatz this Sunday evening, start 18.00.

It was just a lovely weekend of music. What a treat to meet and listen to and play tunes with old-time fiddle player Bruce Green in Kinvara (in Green’s!). Thanks to Frank Hall for organising it all!
And mighty tunes with Mary Shannon and Steve Sweeney in Padraicin’s last Friday night. And last but not least, great to see the Droighneann Donn in Spiddal open again. Jimmy Dillon, Regis Golding and myself took a break from Taaffe’s and enjoyed Saturday night there. And Sunday evening’s session was a great buzz. And on top of that the AMAZING weather. Feels like the South of France but with all the great music sessions!

Had a lovely session last Saturday celebrating international FairPlé day! Thanks to all that came out in support! Here a few pix…