Well 2024, that’s a wrap!
Happy New Year from Burren Fiddle Holidays !
How to describe a whole year in a short post? I always wonder this, then I open my photo album and there it is all mapped out, a wealth of music and events. This past year has been no exception, and as usual I find myself having to make a short-list. I have some new video – if a photo tells a thousand words, a video tells how many more? They’re on my music page here if you’d like to head over and check them out!
I continued to teach my regular classes online and in Corofin. Thanks as always to my lovely students who keep me inspired and working as a full-time musician. We continued on our musical journeys together with a couple of heartening online recitals and eight of us who live locally flying the fiddle-section flag at the village Christmas market complete with guitar accompaniment.

The Irish Independent Weekend Magazine, Feb 2024
Summer came around and in between hosting some lovely fiddle-holidayers I took some time to re-calibrate after the movement of the year before. June and July are my favourite months with the long evenings full of magic and festival time and I set off, meeting some old musical friends for the first time in a long while and making some new ones. Allowing for spontaneity creates the things you could not plan and Ireland is rich in spontaneity, and generosity. In 2025 I hope to follow the same path, with some time for fiddle holidays and also a new niche ‘fiddle camp week’ for August – watch this space! I can’t wait.

In August I jumped into a band with my excellent musician friends – The Kilfenora Roadshow. We worked together and showcased the band at a couple gigs. Trad informed and (largely but not exclusively!) trad at heart we are a whole range of influences from working as a musician in this part of the world – ballads, country and Irish, folk, Americana, original songs, adaptions of poetry and lyrics from lost eras, pop, bluegrass and more. All this is on a whole range of instruments, with a brilliant dancer also. I hope we’ll see you in 2025!

That’s it from me for now. There are one or two spaces for classes and holidays remaining, so if you’d like to work on some music together, please do get in touch. In the meantime, take care.
Best,
Laura