Siúl na Slí

Released by Raelach Records, this is the debut album by Cork accordion and melodeon player, Diarmuid Ó Meachair, the 2022 TG4 Young Musician of the Year:

https://raelachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/si-l-na-sl-2

This is a very good recording, by an outstanding player - highly recommended.

To come back to this, I’m really enjoying the playing on this recording. I might normally be put off by a recording including such well-known tunes as on track #1 , 6, 11 and 13, but Diarmuid very much makes these tunes his own with his own variations, quite unlike any of the transcriptions here, or any recordings by any other musicians I have heard. My old pal Dougie MacLean once said that the only musical limits are our imaginations, and here is living evidence of what can be done with “standard” tunes using that imagination.
There are also 4 Finbarr Dwyer tunes here which I don’t think I’ve heard before on tracks #2 and # 4. Finbarr and Richard Dwyer seem to have been a major influence, with a few other of their compositions included on other tracks.