Chamber music challenge

Hard work and imagination led to the success story that is West Cork Chamber Music Festival, writes Áilín Quinlan.

TEN YEARS ago Francis Humphrys was a dairy farmer near Bantry who had a deep and abiding love of classical music.

The problem was, most of the time when he or his friends wanted to attend a concert, they had to make a three-hour round trip from the West Cork town to Cork City.