May 24 Guiness and a Traditional Music Festival in Clare

If you trust the winds of chance you may find yourself blown to unexpected places.
The wild wind kept us in port but blew us to the Fleadh Nua, a week long Irish music festival, held in Ennis Co Clare.
Last night we went to a session at Brogan's a pub which supports musicians and holds jam sessions every night. Pint of Guiness in hand we listened in rapture at the most wonderful music. It began with with three men, a drummer, a fiddler and a guitar player but with in half an hour other musicians began to arrive with their instruments and enriched the sound, flutes, fiddles, banjos, even the spoons. A woman sang with a voice as clear and clean as the Irish springs and a room packed to the brim fell silent and mesmerised by her beautiful voice. Unlike the music on the radio this is real, soulful and totally unplanned unrehearsed and played for love not profit. Apparently this happens every night. Pure magic.

I will stay another night because this is just too good to leave.