Coatesville Traditional Irish Music Series ... 143 E. Lincoln Highway, Coatesville, PA

Ti$15 in advance; $18 at the door. Reserve @ www.CTIMS.info/

Laura Byrne has modeled her playing on the music of the older generation of Irish flute players. After countless trips to Ireland and a close study of those old masters, she has developed a style that has been described as "effortless, powerful and engaging". Her mentors and influences are many and include the late great East Galway flute player Mike Rafferty, Roscommon fluter Catherine McEvoy and Matt Molloy of Chieftain’s fame. Laura has performed at countless festivals and concerts in the U.S., Canada and Ireland and is a three-time 1st place winner in solo flute, duets and slow airs at the North American Eastern Fleadh. In 2005 she released her first solo album, A Tune for the Road, which has consistently garnered excellent reviews; more recently her follow up CD, Lucky Day, was released to critical acclaim and the delight of traditional Irish music aficionados everywhere.

Rose Conway Flanagan is a traditional Irish fiddle player and teacher from Rockland County, NY, who began taking fiddle lessons from Martin Mulvihill while growing up in the Bronx. She further developed her style with the help of Sligo fiddle master Martin Wynne and her older brother, fiddler Brian Conway. Great New York fiddlers like Andy McGann and Paddy Reynolds were frequent visitors to the Conway household, which became the Bronx version of a "teach ceoil" (house of music) in the best Irish tradition. Rose currently has a thriving traditional Irish music school in her hometown of Pearl River, NY, where she is hard at work preparing the next generation of great traditional musicians, which already includes several young All-Ireland winners.

Eamon O' Leary grew up in Dublin and developed an interest in Irish music through his friendship with Emer, Breda and John Maycock, a noted family of traditional musicians from County Mayo.  His first instrument was the guitar, which he started playing in his teens. Eamon has since come a long way, having toured extensively throughout Europe and North America, performing with many of Irish music's greatest musicians, including uilleann piper Paddy Keenan, Donegal fiddle giant Tommy Peoples and button-accordionist James Keane. Moving to New York over twenty years ago, he quickly became a vital part of that city's exciting Irish music scene.