Gary Curley & Stephen McKee

A native of Boho, Co. Fermanagh, Gary Curley is an accomplished button accordionist and dedicated music tutor for organisations such as Music Generation and Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. 

A music graduate from Ulster University his musical foundations were laid at home, where weekly sessions hosted by his parents brought together local musicians.

His grandmother Kathleen Quinn influenced his early musical development and subsequently Dinnie Leonard and leading button accordionists such as Finbarr Dwyer, Darren Breslin, and Oliver Deveney. 

From Draperstown, Co. Derry, Stephen McKee was raised in a musical family and developed his musicianship on the tenor banjo playing music alongside his siblings. 

He  learned music at a young age with Aoibheann Devlin, and later attended the Armagh Pipers Club. Early guidance came from his sister Lisa, alongside tutor Mark Mohan and other key influences include Adrian McAuliffe and Brian McGrath.

Gary Curley and Stephen McKee have combined accordion and banjo in a sound that is rhythmically strong, grounded, and distinctively their own. In 2025, the duo released their debut album, ‘CHUNKY BUSINESS’.