Coupla heads are: Lorcán Mac Mathúna (a smashing nice singer), Maitieu O Casaide (pipes whistle etc), Barry Lyons (fiddle, bodhrán, jokes), and Joey Doyle (multiinstrumental – ok so piano, guitar, flute, and stuff).

They are the ones playing with Lorcán in the YouTube videos on the Video/Audio files page. They play fast, slow, lively, sad, new, old, original, and familiar traditional Irish music and they are available for booking. They are not bad at all, if I say so myself.

There is no picture of the band together yet because they are always fairly messy whenever a picture is taken and don’t make a pretty picture – but their music is amazing. There is another reason for this lack of images though. Barry, who is shocking superstitious, thinks that it will rob his soul (literally). Maiteu, who “is not a number”, thinks it will rob his soul (artistically). And Joey doesn’t count. –Does any one want to be our manager (sic)

Lorcán Mac Mathúna was born in Cork in 1976 into a family with a passion for traditional music and singing. He has been singing Sean-Nós for the best part of two decades, learning from a broad range of individuals and styles.

Lorcán has developed a confident, measured singing style on stage which expresses the feeling of his songs and connects the listener to the emotions of the songs creators. His presentation pricks your curiosity as he shares his enthusiasm for tunes, songs and stories, and the people who carried the tradition from the past.

Lorcán, has just released a CD of accompanied traditional Gaelic singing, Rógaire Dubh, which has been drawing much attention in traditional circles. His rendition of an eerie eighteenth-century elegy, Tuireamh Mhic Finín Dhuibh, was described by the Journal of Music in Ireland (JMI) as Commanding. They went on to say:
“ Mac Mathúna has, on this evidence, both the voice and the attitude to place him in the first rank of the new wave of traditional singer.

He has performed as a solo singer in the Young Masters of the Tradition series in Bantry and in collaboration with Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Jane Hughes in West Cork Music’s Monthly session and in Airfield House in Dublin. He was described by JMI as having “both the voice and the attitude to place him in the first rank of the new wave of traditional singers”

He has built a relationship with the songs he sings. His style of presentation reflects the story of the song in the cadence and phraseology of the music and words.

Joey Doyle is a multi instrumentalist hailing from Dalkey, Co. Dublin. As well as being an exceptional solo flute player with marvelous command of fingering and breath he is an accomplished accompanist with a wonderful intuition for the spirit and soul of slow airs. He plays the piano, guitar and flute (on which he is a real virtuoso).

Joey won the All-Ireland U18 title for flute playing in 2002, he also won the slow airs competition on the flute in the same year.

He went on the Comhaltas Ceolteoirí Éireann’s American tour as a flute player in 2004.

Barry Lyons showed uncanny ability from a very early age with a strong and exciting fiddle style.

In between playing in the Dublin pub scene he toured the USA twice with a traditional group called moonshine. In 2001 they toured Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. In 2002 he played with moonshine in Dollywood, Tennessee.

He won an all-Ireland bodhrán playing title in 1999.

Maiteu O Casaide who was raised in Dublin, comes from a famous Donegal piping family. He has blossomed as a piper in the past few years and started to gain notice in 2006 when he came second in the U18 all Ireland fleadh on the Uilleann pipes. Since then he won first prize in the Oireachtas senior competition on the Uilleann pipes in 2007. A smashing uillean pipes player.