Music provides us with wonderful opportunities, not least to travel the world.  While I am very used now to following an institutional calender - be it teaching in a secondary school or now  at Dundalk Institute of Technology - I am fortunate to still have the opportunities to perform and tour.  This Easter I joined two of my great mates from the Kingdom, Conor Moriarty and…

Emerging from a quiet session, this April sees the launch of an exciting duet album from two great friends.

For the past few years, accordion player John Cronin and banjo player Daithí Kearney have enjoyed playing a regular session in Wallis’ Bar in Midleton, a town not usually celebrated for Irish traditional music.  John came to the town in the…