Caitlín Nic Gabhann is a concertina player, performer, teacher, composer and percussive dancer. Having toured for years as a dancer with Riverdance, 3 time All-Ireland concertina champion Caitlín is a regular performer at festivals and concert halls from North America to Asia over the last 15 years. Caitlín’s life’s work to date was recently recognised with her being chosen as UCC Traditional Artist in Residence for 2022.  

Raised in a house full of music in Ashbourne, Co.Meath, Caitlín learned most of her music, style and rhythm from her father Antóin Mac Gabhann. Her mother Bernie is immersed in the Clare set-dancing culture and she passed a love of this on to her children with Caitlín being her dance partner at ceilís from a young age, again heavily influencing her approach to style and rhythm.  

Caitlín’s compositions have been performed in the Cork Opera House and The National Concert Hall, Dublin. Her debut album ‘Caitlín’ received 'CD of the Year' from TradConnect.com and was labelled the 'top Irish traditional album of 2012' by The Wall Street Journal.  

A first class honours graduate of both University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin, Caitlín is currently concentrating on musical collaborations with the award-winning fiddle player and documentary maker, Ciarán Ó Maonaigh. She is also involved as musician and dancer with bands The High Seas, NicGaviskey, Birkin Tree and The Irish Concertina Ensemble.  

TG4 Ceoltóir Óg na Bliana (Young Musician of the Year) for 2019 , Conor Connolly is a button accordion, piano player and singer from Clarinbridge, Co. Galway. Conor has toured and performed and given workshops at many of the Traditional Music festivals at home and abroad such as Scoil Samhradh Willie Clancy, Rencontres Musicales Irlandaises De Tocane in France, Feakle International Music Festival, Cooley-Collins Traditional Music Festival in Gort amongst others. He has just completed an extensive tour of New Zealand and Australia with fellow TG4 Young Musician Of Year 2021 recipient Sorcha Costello and guitar accompanist Pádraig Ó Dubhghaill. He has featured on broadcasts on RTÉ, TG4, RTÉ Radió na Gaeltachta and Clare FM to date. Conor also represented Ireland at the World Expo in Dubai in 2021.