ENGLISH AND IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC FROM A TRIO WITH GREAT FAME AWAITING.

HOW TWO IRISH WOMEN MET AN ENGLISH MAN AND STARTED TO WEAVE.

The story of the trio, whose debut album Warp & Weft this year has received nothing but praise, even from the highest musical circles, is simple. Two Irish women and an Englishman played a few songs together a few years ago and had fun, but they never thought they would become a band at that moment. The Irish women would never have thought that they would ever play English songs, because why would they be interested in the music of former colonizers, that makes sense, and the Englishman sometimes felt like an impostor in the Irish one. That doesn't sound like a good start. But when the band's surroundings wouldn't let them rest, they finally agreed and came up with a name that reflected the idea of intertwining Irish and English traditional music. And the trio The Weaving was born.
Méabh Ní Bheaglaoich from West Kerry sings and plays the accordion like her father Séamus Begley, who was one of the greatest Irish figures until 2023, when he died. Cáit Ní Riain sits at the piano and also sings, also in Irish, of course. Violinist Owen Spafford didn't meet the two by chance: he's been playing Irish music since he was a child, supposedly long before English music, and his teacher in County Kerry was the famous Des Hurley. And in the new trio he then discovered that a breakup instrumental piece is not the same as having the opportunity to sing it, which he doesn't encounter in his duo with guitarist Louis Campbell.
The Weaving perform songs and dances learned from family and friends in pubs across Ireland and England, and they're doing so well that they're already thinking about all sorts of awards.