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He comes from local music royalty and now songwriter and guitarist Tadhg Leahy has completed four tracks as part of an Arts Council award he received during the summer. He has enlisted the help of another local talented musician - and another Tadgh, this time violinist Tadhg Murphy - to enrich the tunes, which are inspired by icons of Drogheda. Back in June I was given the Covid-19 Music Response award by the Arts Council of Ireland, and I had been working on a few pieces that I hoped my grandmother Helen (Leahy) would accompany me on, especially one I called The Road, after the Chord Road, where we all grew up and lived in, says Tadhg, whose dad Barry (Baz) is also a well-known and talented guitarist, and uncle Brendan is a renowned drummer. Helen didn t really have the time to learn the pieces in time, so for the craic, I asked Tadhg (Murphy) to join me, and in the end, we recorded a live session at home when we could.