Mick Moloney was a major figure at the Irish Arts Centre in New York, where we saw him. Aidan Connolly, Executive Director of the Irish Arts Center, writes;

Much has been written about Mick’s phenomenal impact on the field of ethnomusicology and on the hundreds of musicians with whom he worked over the years. His ability also to impact the trajectory of creativity for the many arts institutions with which he intersected cannot be overstated. Indeed, Absolutely Irish would be the first of more than 50 projects we would embark on together, yielding more than 120 performances over those fifteen years.