Dangerous game when there is an orchestra involved as they count the bars NO MATTER WHAT!!!!
So, time to get another one, exactly the same!! (Wolf Forte Secondo for all the fiddlers out there)
Hopefully the new one will serve me well, starting with our WDR orchestra concerts next week 😁
Anyone who was at our recent Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert with Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, myself & John might have noticed that my rest fell off during the intro to a piece, and so I had to swoop down, pick it up, put it on and Éamon had to loop around the intro until I was ready 🤣
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After almost daily use for at least 20 years, I'm getting a new shoulder rest!! I know it's that age as it has a little velcro strip on it... I designed a pack I could carry so I could walk on stage with Riverdance and it stuck to the velcro, and that was 20 ish years ago!!
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Aww..love this dressing room pic from Celtic Connections in Glasgow 🤩 Always a bit of fun to be had getting ready for a concert with these guys - looking forward to our next adventures together Julie Fowlis, Eamon Doorley & John Mc Intyre!!
#irishmusic #scottishmusic #gaeilge
The railway bridge in Dundalk with Cu Chulann's Castle in the background, at sunset, just before I got monumentally soaked this evening 😆
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20 years ago! 🤩 Where does the time go?!? Same fiddle, same bow 🩷 And nice to be on the cover with my friends - Máirtín O'Connor, Cathal Hayden & Gavin Whelan!! And people are still buying 'The Horse's Tail' album so that's nice 🥰🎶
#irishmusic #covergirl #ilovemyjob #album #friends
When you're trying to record a quiet moment from a wee session with your fam, but you just get heckled by the locals 🤣
#dundalk #session #irishmusic
Gotta love Dundalk, even on a rainy February evening 💛
#upthetown #dundalk #anlúabú
Aww so happy to get to play with these two legends last night in Drogheda!! Dermot Byrne, Kevin Burke & joined for a set with Jim Murray & Noriana Kennedy 🤩 Was a gorgeous night 🎶
#irishmusic #accordion #fiddle
Just planning out our summer schedule this week and it is looking LOVELY!! Busy, but fun. How nice to tour and perform our music & song together across the world. Tá muid iontach buíoch agus ag súil go mór leis an samhradh!! 💟
📷 Fête du violon, Luzy, France
#folkduo #irishmusic #livemusic #ireland
Our first concert with the WDR Orchestra in Cologne is now SOLD OUT with only a handful of tickets left for the second concert in Bad Hamm!!!
Beyond excited to perform our music in Germany with this amazing orchestra-Mark Redmond will be there too! And David Brophy 🤩
kultur.hamm.de/de/veranstal...
Romantic Oxford pic 😍
Had a gorgeous time here performing as part of the International Song Festival in October 💟
Have you been?! Defo worth a visit!!
#folkduo #fiddle #guitar #voices #Gaeilge #ontour #irishmusic #celticmusic
Yes 🥰
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Toirtín seacláide do mo grá...
Chocolate tart for my Valentine 🩷
Bhí muid chomh sásta go bhfuil Tristan Rosenstock linn ag Féile na Tána, agus rinne sé obair mór mar láithreoir, teagascóir agus ag seinm ag an fhéile! 🎶🙌
Tristan's band Téada will be performing soon with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on Thursday 26th February in the National Concert Hall-don't miss it!
💙 Love this shot from Féile na Tána last week!
#féilenatána #carlingford #irishfestival #irishmusic #gaeilge
My lovely fiddle class at Féile na Tána 🤩
Captured by the fabulous Robin Barnes | Orbee Digital 📷 🫶
#féilenatána #Irishmusic #fiddle #workshop #anlúabú
And that's a wrap!!! 9 days of music, song, dance & much chat!!! Tá Féile na Tána thart fa choinne bliain eile 🩷
Thanks to all who came, listened, clapped, sang, played, supported...I think that was my favourite year ever...still on cloud nine 🎶
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#féilenatána #irishmusic #festival
Lads, I floated out of Carlingford Heritage Centre after the most exhilarating concert of my life on Saturday night!!
Someone said to me after our 'Mór-Cheolchoirm na Féile' that it was like Live Aid but with trad music 🤣
Heading to céilí AND singing session tonight!
#féilenatána
Carlingford is a hive of activity today in readiness for our *sold out* Féile na Tána gig tonight!!! 🤩
Wish us luck 🤞 Ag súil go mór leis!
#festival #concert #féilenatana #livemusic #commission
The stage is set 🤩
Let's go make some music!
Glasgow
Celtic Connections 2026
Such an incredible experience performing last night for a sold out audience at St. Patrick's Cathedral 💜🩵💙
Everything came together as we hoped it would - acoustics, light, harmony, melody...with another layer of sound from the Esposito Quintet behind us
Thanks TradFest 🙏
Well, no...but I was paid for the session 😊
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A beautiful day full of music was had today in Glasgow...such a joy to play with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, David Brophy, Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, John Mc Intyre, Máirtín O’Connor, Cathal Hayden, Seamie O'Dowd, Matthew Berrill & Jimmy Higgins 💜
#ilovemyjob #orchestra #newmusic #fiddle #song
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall!!!!
Big gig coming up on Wednesday!! 🩵
Julie Fowlis
Éamon Doorley
John Mc Intyre
Zoë Conway
with
the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
and
conductor David Brophy
At Celtic Connections 😁
Big gig coming up!!
Julie Fowlis
Éamon Doorley
John Mc Intyre
Zoë Conway
&
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
&
conductor David Brophy
& performing 'The Mighty Ocean' with Máirtín O'Connor, Cathal Hayden, Matthew Berrill
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Wed 21 Jan
www.celticconnections.com/event/2/scot...
Little snippet of our live version of 'Dúirt Bean Liom' into a surprise reel on RTÉ Radio 1... but I love the clap at the end the most 🤣 there were only about 5 people in the room 💪
#liveradio #livemusic #song #Irish #gaeilge
Our wee blue vinyl is one year old today!! So happy!!
Allt Volume II Cuimhne
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@doorleyeamon
@blackmountainstudios
@vinyldublin
#allt #irishmusic #scottishmusic #gaeilge #gaidhlig
