He's in Australia, I'm in Ireland, so I can't reach out a long arm and drag him to sessions!

Can't find the Junior Crehan album with audio samples, so unless I can go in to Claddagh or somewhere and get them to play a few tracks, that's out.

i'm getting more inclined to bring him in with a more soft-focus album, not so much fiddle. Maybe Brendan Begley, or Smaointe, or Blasta. I thought of Altan, but they tend to have a rather grating line in female songs that I think might be off-putting for an adolescent boy, and to favour those relentlessly chirpy Northern/Scottish songs like Maire's Wedding and Dúlamán.

I may just go for something like Another Country by the Chieftains, though not really Irish at all…

The singing on Sail Óg Rua is great, of course, but I find the fiddle a bit squeaky.