Out of the Blue Available for Preorder
February 6th 2020 was the date of my last solo show . It was in a lovely festival in Geneva. Then the virus came. During 2020 I just surrendered to this new world, and let go of the need to be out there doing the gigs. Steve Cooney had just released his beautiful cd of old harp tunes. I picked up my guitar, and began to learn the beautiful Bridget Cruise from that record. After a few more tunes, I decided to try and interpret the stunning Aisling Gheal. I’ve been listening to Iarla O’Lionaird sing it for decades. Then I tried some classic tunes from Peadar O’Riada, Martin Hayes and Denis Cahill, and then Cathal Hayden. Basically I returned in my mind to the teenage boy in Kildare in the 1970s, sitting alone in a room, playing guitar every day, with no audience.…