Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill @ the IAC — 8 Nights, 8 Special Guests

“Martin Hayes plays fiddle. Dennis Cahill plays acoustic guitar. Singly, each is remarkable. As a duo they are sublime.” (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Martin Hayes (fiddle) and Dennis Cahill (guitar) are two of the world’s leading artists in Irish music with their adventurous, soulful interpretations of traditional tunes. This series of eight performances offers a rare chance to experience Martin and Dennis in collaboration with a variety of artists, and doing a retrospective of their own 20 year history as a duo. Each night a different special guest will perform with the duo and solo, including NYC pianist Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon, uilleann piper Ivan Goff, fiddler Cleek Schrey, fiddler Dana Lyn, epiphone guitarist Kyle Sanna, Norwegian Hardanger fiddler Dan Trueman,  and clarinetist Doug Wieselman.