Traditional musicians are beginning to discuss what the post-COVID world will sound like once pandemic restrictions are lifted and life begins to return to normality.
But, according to Eoin Stan O Sullivan, the Newmarket-based Musician In Residence for Sliabh Luachra, musicians are considering whether they will be playing more gigs in community halls and other large venue settings rather than pubs when restrictions begin to be relaxed. There are questions whether many pubs will survive the pandemic and whether people will be willing to go back to pubs to hear live music, he said. During last summer, we were planning to organise a series of music events in some of the new digital hubs around Sliabh Luachra and stream them online - but we had to rethink that.