Saturday Evening Concert: John Carty, Michael McGoldrick, Matt Griffin, Michael McCague / Saileóg Ní Cheannabháin and Pádraic Keane / Harry Bradley, James Carty and Libby McCrohan
Saturday 28th October
Evening Concert
Featuring:
John Carty, Michael McGoldrick, Michael McCague and Matt Griffin
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin and Pádraic Keane
Harry Bradley, James Carty and Libby McCrohan
Ivy Suite – The Crown Hotel, Cricklewood Broadway
Doors 7.30pm – late bar
Tickets: £20 General Admission/ £6 U18s
Please note, special offer weekend tickets also available for £40 on IMDL’s Eventbrite page
John Carty is a leading exponent of the North Connacht style and has impressive knowledge of the music of Sligo emigrant musicians. He was awarded the TG4 Gradam Ceoil Traditional Music of the Year in 2003. He has released several solo albums on fiddle and banjo and has recorded a number of duet albums including two with flute-player Matt Molloy, one with fiddle-player Brian Rooney, Settle Out of Court with his daughter, the singer and banjo player Maggie Carty and most recently The Wavy Bow Collection with his son, fiddle player James Carty.
John has been joined in this musical exploration by accomplished piper, Michael McGoldrick. A co-founder of Flook and Lúnasa, and a linchpin of Capercaillie’s line-up since 1998. Manchester-born flute/whistle and uilleann pipes maestro, Michael has performed around the globe in ex-Dire Straits legend Mark Knopfler’s band. Collaborations include – Youssou N’Dour, Zakir Hussain, John Cale and the Transatlantic Sessions. Michael’s trailblazing work as a player and composer is showcased on his three solo albums to date and his live performances with the exhilarating Michael McGoldrick Band.
Their new duet album At Our Leisure explores the exciting and innovative combination of the banjo with uilleann pipes, as well as utilising fiddle, tenor guitar and flute. They are joined by the much sought after accompanists, Michael McCague (bouzouki) and Matt Griffin (guitar).
Saileog Ní Cheannabháin is a musician, sean nós singer and composer, who grew up in a musical family. A native Irish speaker, she has played traditional and classical music on piano as well as traditional music on fiddle and viola from a young age.
She has released two albums to date, I bhfíor-dheiriú oidche (2012) and Rothleán (2016), features on other albums including: Ensemble Ériu (2011), Tunes in the Church (2013), Rogha Raelach Volume 1 (2020), and Úna Monathan’s Aonaracht (2023). She also contributed to research work for the Amhráin Ó Iorrus compilation (2014).
Saileog works with Ailbhe Nic Dhonncha and Pádraic Keane, arranging sean nós songs from Connemara and Rinn Ó gCiamach. They have recently recorded with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Born into a great musical family, Uilleann piper Pádraic Keane hails from Maree, Co. Galway. A tutor at many music festivals in Ireland and abroad, in 2011 he was awarded TG4 Young Musician of the Year Award. He has toured America as a soloist with The Irish Chamber Orchestra and has collaborated with Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, RTÉ Concert and RTÉ Symphony Orchestras. Pádraic has toured Europe with the dance show Ragús and worked with Galway’s theatre and arts groups – An Taibhdhearc, Branar and Macnas. Pádraic features on albums including The Rolling Wave – by Na Píobairí Uilleann, Tunes in the Church and Rogha Raelach. In 2022, he released the highly acclaimed solo piping album entitled In Full Tune.
Harry Bradley is a flute player and piper from Belfast and one of the most influential musicians of his generation. He has travelled extensively in Ireland and overseas both as a flute teacher and as a performer with groups such as Cran, Altan and The Taproom Trio. His distinctive rhythmic playing style is influenced by early recordings of Irish music, and by the great flute players of counties Galway, Sligo and Leitrim. In 2014 he received the Gradam Ceoil TG4 Musician of the Year award for his contribution to traditional music.
Originally from Boyle, fiddle player James Carty now lives in London where he performs regularly. He recorded his first solo CD Hiding Daylight in Dark Corners in 2017 followed by a duet album The Wavy Bow Collection in 2020 with his father, John.
James and Harry played regularly together in sessions in Roscommon when they both lived in the area and recorded some duet tracks on Harry’s solo CD The First of May in 2013. Inspired by flute and fiddle greats of Sligo such as Fred Finn and Peter Horan, they also recently performed in Brittany.
Libby McCrohan is an Irish traditional musician from Dublin. She plays a round back Greek bouzouki. Her approach to accompaniment is sensitive, subtle, and rhythmical, taking inspiration from the regulator playing of uilleann pipers. Libby has performed all over Ireland and abroad and has featured on two albums to date – Heard a Long Gone Song by Lisa O’Neill (2018) and Not Before Time… 39 Years in the Making by Páraic Mac Donnchadha (2018).
