A piper's journey: From Broadway and the Caribbean to the Comeragh Mountains

David Power continues to find new ways of presenting the uilleann pipes, with an innovative new collaboration that will have a live outing at Triskel in Cork

David Power and John Walsh. Picture: Joe Chapman

An uilleann piper, a baroque violinist and a flamenco guitarist walk into a bar. It sounds an unlikely alliance but when David Power and Marja Gaynor heard John Walsh play at Kaleidoscope, the monthly classical music salon in Dublin, they were impressed by the Kildare guitarist’s virtuosity and musicianship.

An overture was made, and a plan was hatched to form a trio to develop arrangements of music drawn from their diverse traditions. Now two years on, the ensemble is ready to take to the stage at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork to reveal a unique melding of musical styles to a live audience.