Ronan Browne

My life has been shaped mostly by this enduring and timeless music, song & dance of Ireland.  Although I don't play every day (or anything like it!), I think about music almost all the time – VERY satisfying!  You know that feeling you get when you'd love to have some new gadget and you imagine life with it and how wonderful that would be?  Well that's how I am about Irish music and somehow I never tire of it!

This music has been my lifelong 'profession' – I play concerts, I record, I teach & lecture, I play at weddings, I photograph musical instruments, I engineer for other musicians, I design album sleeves.  As long as it has something to do with music, I'm happy.  Like many others, I'd say that well over 50% of what I do earns me absolutely no money whatsoever but it is those unpaid activities which nourish the soul and keep the love of culture alive in my heart.

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