Randal Bays

Lois and I attended a recent house concert in Indianapolis. Randal Bays played brilliantly, alternating between fiddle and guitar. His wife accompanied him on several tunes and she is quite a good fiddle player as well. Randal said that he prefers the Sliabh Luachra style of Irish music to others, because he feels a kinship with that regional style and I am personally also attracted to that approach. It is somewhat slower than the Sligo method, with beautiful ornamentation and my teacher, Susan Cross, is a proponent of it as well.