LEONARD BARRY: LITTORAL TOUR 2024 With Andy Morrow and Seamie O’Dowd

The Trio

Leonard, Andy Morrow and Seamie O’Dowd have known each other for over 20 years, meeting at various festivals in Ireland and striking up a friendship and musical bond that has seen them perform at nationally and internationally.

Andy Morrow comes from a musical family in County Leitrim; his older brother Tom is the fiddle player with Dervish. Also a multi- award-winning fiddler, Andy started his musical journey winning various national titles whilst still at school. Andy has toured Australia and Ireland Live Dred Theatre Co’s production Trad and is a regular performer and teacher at various festivals throughout Ireland and abroad. His 2006 album with concertina player Tony O’Connell and the late Arty McGlynn on guitar is a timeless masterpiece, widely regarded as one of the classic albums of Irish traditional music. Andy previously collaborated with Leonard and Seamie with Rick Epping in the band New Road, on the album Stone Walls and Street Lights.

Seamie O’Dowd is a guitarist,singer, and songwriter who also plays fiddle, harmonica, mandolin, bouzouki, and other instruments. His musical experience spans four decades, from his first radio appearance at the age of ten on Radio Eireann programme Young Musicians, and playing publicly with his father, the renowned

Sligo fiddle player Joe O’Dowd. He has since played with many great musicians and bands including Mairtin O’Connor, Cathal Hayden, Christy Moore, Declan Synott, The Chieftains, Jimmy Higgins, Tommy Emmanuel, Dervish, Steve Wickham, Matt Molloy, Liam O’ Flynn, Thom Moore, Dick Gaughan, Cathy Jordan, Rick Epping, Kieran Quinn, John Joe Kelly, Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, and Cathal Roche.

As part of the Masters of Irish Music project devised by Martin Hayes, he, along with Mairtin O’Connor and Cathal Hayden, played concerts in the Sydney Opera House and at the Lincoln Centre in New York. Seamie was also a member of Dervish for six years, during which time he played with them at the legendary Rock in Rio festival in Brazil. He was awarded The Freedom Of The Borough in 2004 by Sligo Corporation while a member of Dervish for this contribution to local culture and was nominated for the Best Folk Musician award in 2018 in RTE’s inaugural Irish Folk Awards.

Live, Seamie adds songs to the instrumental repertoire that characterises Littoral.