My biggest talent is being in the right place at the right time...

Outstanding memories from way back include seing Margaret Barry and Michael Gorman at the Favourite and magical nights after the Singers Club when Luke Kelly and Louis Killen seemed always to be there.

And the first time I walked into O'Donoghues and met Seamus Ennis plus most of the lineup that would become Planxty.   Then meeting Jeannie Roberson and a teenage Barry Dransfield at the same Keele Festival.

Fast forward 35 years to the Shooting Roots concert at Sidmouth when I saw Jackie Oates fiddlesinging for the first time. And yet it is unfair to single out these seminal moments. There have been and will be so many more as the tradition continues to live.