Here is a selection of new compositions by Monaghan fiddler Dónal Mc Cague.  We have not featured new compositions of late following our New Tune Composition  which we ran in 2014. Oisín Mac Diarmada in a bio written at the time of Dónal’s debut release Bits ‘N’ Pieces describes him as “the latest in a line of superb young musicians to emerge from Co. Monaghan. I first encountered Dónal’s fiddling while adjudicating at Fleadh Cheoil Uladh in Draperstown during 2002, struck even then by his obvious musical promise. In the years which have passed since, Dónal has developed into a fiddler of great expressivity, playing music adorned with an incredible level of detail and thought.”

He has since featured on a number of great new albums including The Waylaid Man and Our Dear Dark Mountain with the Sky Over which won a Gradam award this year.