Altan's music for the body and soul

Altan are on the road 30 years, and fiddler Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh is as happy as ever to play their music, even if she’s starting to pass the baton to her daughter, writes
MAIRÉAD Ní Mhaonaigh is gazing out her window at a snow-covered landscape. It is not her native Donegal, however, but her view from a hotel window in Boston, where she is touring with traditional Irish band, Altan.