The Co Cork Trad Trio are available for weddings and events across South West Ireland and can also be booked as a duo.

Website guide price is based on a DUO booking.

The Flute and Whistle Player has been in the role of session musician, arranger, composer and producer on some 22 commercial albums to date in the genres of Irish Traditional, Folk, Indie and Crossover. A Community Educator for Cork ETB, Music Generation, CCSM and CCÉ, Karl is a graduate of CSN, UCC and MTU.

He has performed at numerous festivals throughout the UK, Europe, Scandinavia and China, and has shared the stage with some of the most acclaimed Irish musicians. He has performed as guest instrumentalist with the Berne Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, and has played support to artists such as Sharon Shannon, Seán Ó’Shea, Frankie Gavin, Bob Geldof, Mairéad Nesbitt, Iarla O’Lionaird, Steve Cooney, The Hot House Flowers, Lúnasa, John Spillane, Eddie Reader, Brian Finnegan, Juliet Turner, Brian Kennedy and more.

The Guitarist is a Cork musician and songwriter, known for playing mainly traditional and folk music. Over the years he has performed with and shared stages with some of Ireland’s most prestigious acts. He has toured extensively in the UK, the US, Canada, Russia, and throughout mainland Europe.

The Accordionist is a full time professional musician, composer and music teacher from West Waterford. He has toured extensively around the world particularly in the US and Germany with his own groups and with established touring bands such as “The Young Irelanders”.

Thanks to the mentorship of Bobby Gardiner Jason has fostered a deep love and respect for Irish traditional music from a young age. His compositions take traditional rhythms and patterns as their roots, but are expanded to include influence from his classical training, aspects of other folk music traditions and modern experimental works. He has a firm belief that it is important to nurture the authenticity of the Irish traditional music experience, staying true to its origins while at the same time responding to the modern world.

Expanding the boundaries of compositional ideas for his works, he has ventured into designing responsive light arrangements. He has conceived and developed a software system which creates ad hoc light shows in immediate response to the tempos of live music; audience members can also collaboratively adjust lighting to suit the mood in real- time via the web. He is also interested in the interplay between live traditional instruments and electronic music and has developed a number of new electronic instruments including an optical midi analyser for the accordion as well as an Android based synthesizer.

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