To continue the thread drift, I'm enchanted by Marta Sebestyen singing Leaving Derry Quay
So am I.... and I love the way that she segues from that into a song of Greeks being expelled from Turkey in the days of Ataturk and then back into the Irish song.
I love the banjo playing on that track which was played by her ex-husband who produced and all the others on that outstanding album Kismet which is one of my all-time favourites.
Certainly, you can hear from her accent that she is not Irish but I don't think that you could tell this from her exquisite timing and phrasing. Of course, she had an excellent tutor of Irish music studies in Andy Irvine. In return, Andy learned a great deal about the timing and phrasing of all those Magyar and Balkan tunes from her. This dates back to the time when Márta and Andy were very close(!). Her parents were both leading Hungarian ethno-musicoligists and she has followed them with an enormous and broad knowledge of European and middle-eastern song.
Could I refer Backwoodsman and anyone else for that matter to listen to anything by her? All her albums are great, the solo albums and also the wonderful albums by Muzsikás, particularly Morning Star, The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania, The Bartok Album, The Prisoner's Song and Blues for Transylvania but all the twelve albums of Márta and Muzsikás have their strengths. The only thing that is better than them was to hear them live - mesmerising stuff!!!

I think I'll go and sit somewhere quiet and calm down.