Time & Location
11 Apr 2025, 20:00 – 22:00
St Matthias Church, Church Rd, Cooragurteen, Ballydehob, Co. Cork, Ireland
About the event
Virtuoso accordion player Máirtín O’Connor, named Ireland’s 2015 Traditional Musician of the Year,(TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards), brings his remarkable trio to the Ballydehob Tradfest for the second time having performed to a sell-out audience at Ballydehob TradFest 2022.
Galway virtuoso Máirtín O’Connor's accordion playing and range of compositions have been dazzling audiences for over 30 years," proclaimed the Irish Examiner upon Máirtín's award in February, 2015.
He is joined by Séamie O’Dowd, a defining member of Dervish for over a decade and a brilliant guitarist and singer, and the astonishing fiddler and multi All-Ireland champion Cathal Hayden (Four Men and a Dog).
Individually recognized figureheads of the Irish tradition, the trio has built a reputation for their astounding virtuosity and vitality. The trio will appear at the Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville, North Carolina and the Savannah Music Festival as well as other venues.
"Irish traditional music's own 'power trio',"…