Description: A string band with an adventurous spirit, rooted in the Irish tradition and featuring fiddler/singer Nollaig Casey, guitarist Arty McGlynn, Nollaig's sister, harper Máire Ní Chathasaigh and guitarist/mandolinist Chris Newman.
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Nollaig Casey, Chris Newman, Arty McGlynn & Máire Ní Chathasaigh
“A dream quartet - the sweetest and most exciting music to emerge for a long time. Matching virtuosity with sheer good taste... amazing, majestic, delightful" DIRTY LINEN (USA)
Welcome / Fáilte! The Heartstring Quartet is "An outstanding string band made up of two duos - magnificently musical Irish sisters Nollaig and Máire on fiddle and harp, with their two virtuoso guitar partners" Scotland on Sunday***** Arty "is to flatpicking traditional Irish music what Doc Watson is to flatpicking American fiddle tunes” Flatpicking Guitar Magazine (USA), Máire is “the doyenne of Irish harpers” Scotland on Sunday , Nollaig has graced stages worldwide with her “exquisite fiddle- playing and s