Tony O’Connell & Andy Morrow with Arty McGlynn

Concertina player Tony O’Connell from West Limerick and Leitrim-born fiddler Andy Morrow (younger brother of Dervish’s Tom Morrow) have been performing as a duo for the past eight years or so, impressing audiences at assorted festivals with their bracing style and fine musicianship. With the great guitarist Arty McGlynn driving the engine, their debut CD could hardly be lacking on the energy front, and it’s a major treat indeed. Messrs O’Connell and Morrow are to be particularly commended for their unusual selection of material, which includes compositions by the likes of Carol Hession, John Faulkner and Tom McElvogue, as well as various old rareties that they’ve managed to dig up along the way.