ICC Concert Session

With her Kerry roots, and fast becoming one of London’s contemporary pioneers for Irish traditional music, Orlaith is now world famous as a flute and whistle player.  with too many All-Ireland championships medals to mention, mixed with extensive gigging alongside great musicians from Ireland and America, she still finds time to keep the flame lit back in her home town of London.

County Sligo concertina player, Alex Kelly, comes from a very musical family. He was a member of the national award winning Sligo group: Tog a hOcht. He has been a highly valued member of the traditional Irish session scene here in London ever since he moved over in recent years – first playing regular sessions in West London with Dublin accordionist, Conal Cuttle and fiddler, Deirdre Glynn and now a regular session player . In 2019 he was involved in performances of the ‘De Cuéllar Suite’ which was composed by Michael Rooney and pays tribute to the Spanish Armada.

Tad Sargent, our former Bodhrán and Guitar tutor, needs no introduction. He is the host of the Concert Session Series and is delighted to back at the Irish Cultural where he spent decades as one of the music tutors.