Lexie Boatright is an award winning Concertina and Harp player and member of the breakout Irish Trad band, The Consequences. A sensitive and exciting performer, Lexie has performed widely on the festival circuit and taught at top summer schools across the USA. Lexie's concertina playing is known most for her vocal-inspired phrasing over a rich foundation of chording with … [Read more...] about Lexie Boatright
2024
Dan Brouder
Dan Brouder is a well-respected exponent of the West Limerick accordion style from Monagae, a parish on the outskirts of Newcastle West. He learned his music in the surrounding parishes of Ardagh, Carrigkerry and Glin on the Sliabbh Luachra boundary from accordion player Donal de Barra and concertina player Timmy Collins from West. Limerick and from flute players Donal O’Sullivan and Francis … [Read more...] about Dan Brouder
Siobhan Butler
Siobhan Butler is a traditional dancer, dance researcher, and founder of the online irish dance education platform: Bánóg. Informed by decades of field work in traditional percussive dance, Siobhan’s work as a performer and educator has taken her to stages and institutions around the world where she has been privileged to collaborate with music and dance artists such as Nuala Kennedy, Steve … [Read more...] about Siobhan Butler
Angelina Carberry
Angelina Carberry was born in Manchester, England into a County Longford musical family steeped in traditional music. Starting on the tin whistle, she later moved onto the banjo following in the footsteps of her father Peter and grandfather Kevin Carberry. Angelina moved to Galway in the late 90’s where she recorded the highly acclaimed album ‘Memories from the Holla’ with her father Peter on … [Read more...] about Angelina Carberry
John Carty
John Carty is one of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians having been awarded the Irish Television station, TG4’s Traditional Musician of the Year in 2003. He was appointed Sligo Traditional Musician in residence 2019. Born in London, fiddle and banjo player John Carty has established himself among the elite in Irish traditional music and as a staunch supporter of its preservation. Carty … [Read more...] about John Carty
Zoë Conway
Zoë Conway effortlessly combines a background steeped in Ireland’s rich aural music tradition with a strong founding in classical music. She has toured worldwide and has appeared in many prestigious concert halls including Carnegie Hall, New York, The Kremlin Palace, Moscow and The National Concert Hall, Dublin. Her versatility as an instrumentalist has allowed her to perform across a broad range … [Read more...] about Zoë Conway
Seamus Egan
Seamus Egan attained his greatest success as a solo artist with his soundtrack for Edward Burns' 1995 film The Brothers McMullen; it spent four months on the world music charts and included the Top Ten hit "I Will Remember You," recorded by Sarah McLachlan. Egan, however, has been an important presence on the Irish music scene for far longer. A four-time winner of the All-Ireland award … [Read more...] about Seamus Egan
Eileen Estes
Eileen Estes has thrilled audiences for years with her extraordinary voice, effortlessly combining vocal power with subtle emotional expressiveness. In anddition to performing, Eileen is a studio musician and vocal coach. She is a faculty member of the Washington Conservatory of Music, is the vocal instructor for the Irish Music School of Chicago, and runs an online vocal studio for folk … [Read more...] about Eileen Estes
Dylan Foley
Dylan Foley is one of the great fiddle players of our time, a four-time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, delighting audiences from Lincoln Center to Irish Television channels RTE and TG4. Dylan was recently featured in a Television series "Mr. Mercedes" starring Brendan Gleeson. Foley travelled with Mick Moloney in 2013, to Vietnam as part of Irish Aid. He teaches and performs at the major Irish … [Read more...] about Dylan Foley
Deirdre Granville
Hailing from Dingle, Co. Kerry, a multi-instrumentalist and singer, Deirdre studied both traditional and classical music from a young age. She has toured and performed extensively worldwide and has featured on Radio, commercial recordings and TV performances both solo and with other celebrated musicians including Kerry Chamber and Youth Orchestras, Aoife Granville, folk singing group; Deluce’s … [Read more...] about Deirdre Granville