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Dónal Lunny, Máirtín O’Connor & Zoë Conway

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Three generations of Irish traditional music in one billing — bouzouki, button accordion and fiddle from players who shaped the form.

Dónal Lunny came out of the Planxty circle in the early 1970s and went on to The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts, and much of the way the Irish bouzouki is now played in trad settings traces back to his arranging. Máirtín O'Connor, from Galway, played accordion with De Dannan and Skylark before joining the band that took Riverdance around the world, and his own writing leans toward the airier, less driven end of the accordion repertoire. Zoë Conway, from Co. Louth, trained as a classical violinist and works regularly as a duo with guitarist John Doyle.

Together the three play mostly tunes rather than songs, with Lunny's accompaniment sitting under O'Connor's accordion lines and Conway's fiddle, sometimes in unison, sometimes trading the melody.

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