Tonight's Music

Three absolute masters of their instruments:

Dermot Byrne - button accordion
Niall Vallely - concertina
Donald Shaw - piano accordion

From the BBC's Highland Sessions.

Tonight's Music

This is the group Buille (for pronunciation imagine someone throwing up) performing the tune August First. The man playing concertina is Niall Vallely, probably the best concertina player in the world. He is also the husband of the lovely Karan Casey.

Notice his extreme focus when playing and then how he sort of "comes out of himself" when acknowledging the crowd's applause.

Tonight's Music

Niall Vallely plays the concertina, Donald Shaw on the piano, Steve Cooney on guitar and Trevor Huchinson on bass, Allan Henderson plays fiddle, Allan MacDonald with the jew's harp and Iain MacDonald doing a great job with the smallpipes.

This is from BBC's The Highland Sessions.

Tonight's Music

Tejedor - Salton de Teixois. Filmed live in Oviedo, with special guest Niall Vallely.

Tonight's Music

Another video from the BBC's Celtic Sessions. This is the group Buille which features Niall Vallely on the concertina. Sorry I don't know the name of the tune.