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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.
THE pubs have been silent for months now as the echoes of the last Sliabh Luachra polka played with passion at a session have long since died away.
But this weekend the tentative first notes will resound as the rebirth of live traditional music gets underway.
A concert featuring virtuouso accordion player, Bryan O Leary, is being broadcast online to launch the musician s new album, Tranquility in Tureencahill.
This is part of an initiative instigated by Scully s Fest organiser, Eoin Stan O Sullivan, who has just taken up the position of Sliabh Luachra Musician in Residence , a joint venture between Cork, Kerry and Limerick County Councils to promote the music rich region which straddles the three counties.