Clann Mhic Ruairí

As I listen to the magnificent Clann Mhic Ruairí’s Súile CD, I can’t help considering Ireland’s lack of success with foreign ventures in song competitions in recent years, and I wish I could tell festival organisers that they could select just about any one of the tracks on this group’s new CD, and people in other lands would be enthralled at what they hear: the utter beauty of song and singing, exquisite arrangements, and appeal of words and harmonies. The fusion of old and modern in Clann Mhic Ruairí’s CD, Súile, is not only something of a triumph, it’s a total pleasure. Aidan O’Hara (Irish Music Magazine July 2016)