COLLABORATIONS
Monaghan Piper Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn and Laoise have a recording together called ‘Ar Lorg na Laochra’ available to download or buy here from Custy’s Music.
The Albiez Trio was formed at the Celti’cimes music festival in Albiez du Montrond in the French Alps in summer 2014, with fiddler Tola Custy, harper Laoise Kelly and whistle player Cormac Breatnach.
Since then Albiez Trio have played Dingle Trad Fest, Armagh Piping Festival, Vienne-Lyon in France, Corsica Kulturate Festival, Mermaids Arts centre & The Hugh Lane Gallery, & The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, and performed with the Irish Chamber Orchestra for 1916 commemoration concerts in the Mansion House, Limerick Cathedral and Glór in Ennis.
Michelle O’Brien, the magic fiddler from Toonagh, Co.Clare, and Laoise first performed together in Dún na Séad Castle at the Baltimore Fiddle Fair Festival, Co.Cork. They recorded their live album ‘The Wishing Well’ - Live at The Dock, Carrick on Shannon in 2010.
Acclaimed Gaidhlig singer Kathleen MacInnes, from South Uist in the outer Hebrides, & Laoise get together for the odd memorable few gigs.
Bass player Martin Brunsden & Laoise performed together at Carrick on Shannon’s ‘Water Music festival’ and were commissioned to perform a childrens show ‘The Magic of the Harp’ for ‘The Ark’ children’s cultural centre in Dublin.
Tommy Peoples, Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich & Laoise Kelly were first brought together by Music Network for a tour of Ireland in 2011. They toured many times together after that. It was an honour and thoroughly enjoyable to spend time in Tommy’s company and we miss him greatly since his passing in 2018.
Breanndán & Laoise still play a few concerts together every year.
The Fiddletree is a merry band of members from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia in Canada, America, Scotland & Ireland. This epic story of each member playing an instrument made from the same tree begins with the amazing instrument maker, fiddler and composer Otis Tomas.