by Mac Entee
Widely regarded as one of the most gifted musicians of her generation, Sharon Shannon was born in the Village of Ruan near Corrofin in Co Clare. Her parents IJ and Mary were set dancers and the four children all play music: Sharon accordeon and fiddle, Mary (Bumblebees) banjo, Majella fiddle and Garry, flute [...]

He is the man with the longest CV in Irish music. Donal Lunny was born in 1947 into a large family in Tullamore before moving to Newbridge, Co Kildare. His mother came from Ranafast in the Donegal Gaeltacht, his father from Enniskillen. He shunned early attempts to teach him the piano and his introduction to [...]

Roger Sherlock was born in 1932 in Cloonfeightrin, Co. Mayo, near Gurteen on the Sligo border. The area around Gurteen was renowned for music and he started quite young on the tin whistle. He learned from local musicians such as fiddle players John Henry, Pack Spellman, Pat Kelleher and especially the flute player Paddy ‘Jim [...]