Brian McGrath (banjo) & Johnny Ringo McDonagh (bodhrán) - Spike Island Lasses set

Two reels from the De Danann concert at the 2012 Philadelphia Ceili Festival: Spike Island Lasses and Bill Hoar’s Reel (thanks to comment below). Brian’s banjo playing is awesome as usual. As a fellow bodhrán player one of the things I’ve always loved about Johnny Ringo’s playing is the way he often adds a harmonic/bass element to the mix. You really need to listen with some decent headphones to hear it as clearly as it came across in concert. For example at the beginning of the B part of both tunes (0:12,