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Born into a Cork family, Damien Mullane spent his youth in London before migrating to Ireland, where his family roots lay.

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Some years ago, Nathan Gourley and Joey Abarta, assisted by Owen Marshall, graced us with a superb album, Copley Street. They return as a trio in 2025 to offer us Copley Street 2, the logical follow-up to the first album.

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I introduced you to the previous albums by Quebec trio Grosse Isle. Since then André Marchand has stepped down and young musician François-Félix Roy has joined Quebec fiddler and pianist Sophie Lavoie and Irishman Fiachra O'Regan (uilleann pipes, whistle and banjo).

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Based in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the Appalachian Mountains, and more specifically in Virginia, Julie and Josh Kinn are the descendants of Scottish immigrants. Husband and wife, in 2018 they founded the duo Kinnfolk.