Hi all, thanks so much for visiting. For the last few weeks (months, hhmm) I haven’t been able to update my website and hadn’t had much of a chance to look into the glitches too (finishing my PhD research into music in Galway City made time pretty tight). Finally and thankfully my amazing bro’ Tilli has just spent a good few hours sorting the issues out. Thank you Tilli! Here is a little clip from a recent concert in Ballindereen, playing before Jim Rooney, Sean Keane, Mick Daly and Frank Hall, which was great fun. Seán O’Malley on uilleann pipes, Fintan O’ Malley on guitar.

amazing walk along Galway Bay today and a nice few hours spent in my favourite “office” (@Salthill Hotel)…. tunes tomorrow Sunday The Thatch Oranmore, 8pm start… Anna Falkenau, Seán O Malley uilleann pipes, Fintan O Malley guitar singer … all welcome

Looking forward to this launch event this Wednesday, 6pm UTC of a publication to which I was delighted to contribute, with a focus on Irish traditional music in Galway, 1960s/1970s….you can find the zoom link via this link attached… would be lovely to see some of ye there :-
Publication EFACIS Volume 2021
https://www.efacis.eu/content/efacis-roundtable-discussions

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas, and thinking of those of you living through hardship and sad times.

Went to see MÁM at the Blackbox in Galway tonight – and the breathing, the weaving, the sheer energy is still keeping me in a semi-hypnotic state! (Cormac Begley’s wonderful concertina had a lot to do with it, too 🙂 … Looking forward to guesting with Ger Clancy and Kevin Hough tomorrow afternoon in Monroe’s in Galway – fast becoming a legendary weekly session!
More tunes then tomorrow night in Cois Cuain, in Spiddal, from 9.30pm in with James O Donoghue.

What a session last Friday in Monroe’s, the tunes were flying, the craic was mighty and the pizza superb! Thanks to Gary Monroe et al!

Lovely program Béal Maidine, this morning, presented by Caoimhín Ó Sé. Delighted to have been included with a track of three lovely tunes (City of Savannah (Frank Livingston)- Ladies Choice (Charlie Lennon) – Factory Smoke (James Hill), from “I Can Hear You Calling …” you can listen back here:
https://www.rte.ie/radio/rnag/beal-maidine/programmes-sathairn/2022/1022/1330745-beal-maidine-de-sathairn-de-sathairn-22-deireadh-fomhair-2022/

Nice Article in the Galway Advertiser today regarding John Faulkner’s CD Launch concert last weekend….
Looking forward to joining Mary Shannon this evening in Ti Coli’s for a session! 6pm.

It was an honour to join John Faulkner and a fab cast of musicians last Saturday night in Kinvara for the launch of John’s new CD. A blast was had! If you missed it you can order/download it from Johnfaulknermusic.com

The rain is down again! Tunes tunes and tunes in Padraicin’s tonight in Furbo, Mary Shannon, Steve Simmonds and myself from 9.30…. 🙂🎻