Belfast, now where would that be?
In the UK.

And also in Ireland, as "GUEST,Eh? " was hinting.

Here is a fiddler as good as or better than Kevin Burke playing in a session in Scotland. Note: there are people accompanying him. And he shows every sign of welcoming it.

Paul Anderson

The kind of gathering Jim describes Kevin Burke presiding over isn't a musical event, it's some kind of fundamentalist religious ritual. If I'm ever in Aberdeenshire I'll try to find the pub Paul is playing in there: I have no intention of going anywhere near a centre of the sort of hero-cultic obsession Jim describes.