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I have been kindly invited to teach two master-classes this Saturday, September 12th, for the wonderful Philadelphia Ceili Group Festival. I’ll be teaching songs in the Irish language, phonetically and also teaching a fiddle master-class. You can find more information or register at philadelphiaceiligroup.org. Please let your friends know! I’m also so excited that Altan…

Hello, how are you all doing? I have been busy,busy busy! Just to let you know that Altan were invited to share a cover of the wonderful Van Morrison’s song “Whenever God Shines His Light on Me’ for Irish music magazine HotPress’ Youtube celebration of his 75th birthday, which falls on August 31st. We had…

I’ve been busy busy busy with my family band. Na Mooneys’ new pieces for the Earagail Arts Festival 2020 premiered last Sunday July 19th on their An Srutháin (Small streams) channel on Youtube. The compositions include a new song, Siúl i Suain (Walk in Slumber), written by my brother Gearóid and sister Anna. The rest…

During the lockdown I was commissioned by producer, Aoife Nic Cormaic, of the RTÉ Radio 1 traditional music programme, The Rolling Wave and by the Irish Traditional Music Archives to compose a piece of music inspired by my impressions on the COVID-19 lockdown for a special Rolling Wave Show called Faoiseamh (which means ‘respite’ or ‘relief’).…

Hello everyone, I have been kept busy recording lots of new music… Na Mooney’s I have been recording with my family Na Mooneys these last few weeks, commissioned by our local Donegal Earagail Arts Festival, which we are very excited about. My brother Gearoid has a great way with words and has written a beautiful…

I am one of the participants in the new TG4 series , Meitheal na mBan, on YouTube tomorrow night at 9:30PM GMT. This is to raise money and awareness for Women’s Aid Ireland. As we are all aware that the frequency of domestic violence has increased dramatically since the lockdown ,with a lot of women…