CONOR CONNOLLY, SORCHA COSTELLO & PÁDRAIG Ó DUBHGHAILL

The Gathering Festival Presents

| Conor Connolly, Sorcha Costello & Pádraig Ó Dubhghaill In Concert

| Thursday 5th March 2026

| Tickets From €15.00

| Under 18’s Must be Accompanied by an Adult

| Gleneagle Club  

| Doors 7.00pm, Show 7.30pm

Conor Connolly

TG4 Young Musician of the Year for 2019, Conor is a button accordion, piano player and singer from Clarinbridge, Co. Galway. He hails from an area steeped in Irish music that produced legendary players like Joe Cooley and the late Joe Burke. He cites many varied sources and inspirations like Cooley, Burke, Tony McMahon, Charlie Harris and pipers like Willie Clancy, Séamus Ennis and Seán McKiernan along with the great Sligo fiddlers from the early 20th century.

Conor has toured and performed extensively and is a regular at the summer schools at home and abroad. He represented Ireland at the World Expo in Dubai in 2021

Sorcha Costello

Fiddler Sorcha Costello, from Tulla, Co. Clare, comes from a family steeped in vernacular tradition. Through her grand-uncle Tony MacMahon, her mother and uncle Mary and Andrew MacNamara, she’s had an introduction to traditional music to be envied. Highly regarded as a performer, she is also a very talented teacher of music. Sorcha has recently been awarded the title of Young Musician of the Year in TG4’s Gradam Cheoil 2021 Awards.

Pádraig Ó Dubhghaill

Pádraig was born and raised in Inverin, situated in the Connemara Gaeltacht. He started learning the tin-whistle at a young age under the tutelage of Mary Bergin before picking up the guitar at 17 years of age. After spending a couple of years playing a variety of music, Pádraig decided to apply his guitar-playing skills to Irish traditional music. While completing the MA in Irish Music Performance at the University of Limerick, he learnt from some of the best accompanists in the tradition including Steve Cooney and John Blake. Pádraig was featured on his first Irish traditional music recording in 2018 – Fear Inis Bearachain with Johnny Óg Connolly, and has since been involved in various commercial recordings and television broadcasts. In 2022, Pádraig got the chance to represent Ireland for a month at the World EXPO in Dubai as a member of the National Concert Hall’s EXPO Players group. He has a great interest in the music of his locality as well and has been involved in a number of archive projects with the Irish Traditional Music Archive in recent years. Pádraig regularly performs with some of the finest exponents of Irish Traditional Music at various concerts and festivals at home and abroad each year and is also in-demand as a guitar teacher.

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