Sligo trio – Oisín Mac Diarmada, Daithí Gormley and Samantha Harvey – have just released a superb collection of music featuring the classic combination of fiddle, accordion and piano. Oisín and Daithí are steeped in the music and history of the Sligo area, having previously collaborated on ‘Fiddlers of Sligo Tunebook’, a publication which set transcriptions of the fiddle repertoire of key Sligo exponents alongside historic images and context. Daithí Gormley is widely regarded as one of the finest button accordion players of his generation. His remarkably-accomplished debut album Fiddling without a Bow brought an expressive mix of old and new tunes played with an attention to detail conduit to past masters of Irish traditional music.
