David spent the days before the concert recovering from jet lag and a miserable head cold andmoving back into his home.

It's great to have this most amazing of pipers back home in Cúl na Sméar. While Stateside for the past three years, David appeared in a major broadway production - holding centre stage for the first 10 minutes of the production with no one but himself and his pipes. He also cut two CD's and gave concerts and master classes from one end of North America to the other.

Ciarán is one of Ireland's best known sean nós singers and proof that the tradition lives and still inspires audiences. He was pressed onto the stage by popular demand.