Johnny Connolly Plays 2 own compositions: An Cosán Draiochta (the magic path) & Bog Week and tells the story about how he came to name the tunes.
Johnny Connolly was born on the now-abandoned island of Inis Bearacháin, off Leitir Móir in the Connemara Gaeltacht. Once, when he was about nine or ten, with his parents away at the currach races in Leitir Móir, he got his hands on his older brother's melodeon. Soon he was playing a tune on it. By the time his parents got home that evening, he was playing every tune he knew. "So it was left to me after that."
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