Galway Street Musicians

Irish Traditional Music in Galway

"A piper in the streets today

Set up, and tuned, and started to play,

And away, away, away on the tide

Of his music we started; on every side

Doors and windows were open wide."

Seumas O'Sullivan

In Galway, as in Dublin's Grafton Street, you can expect an improvised musical street session at any moment.

Shop Street, Galway

Shop Street, Galway

An Ear for Music

"Age envisions a fiddler

While youth goes blindly by." C O'S

Seconds after this moment was captured, the elderly lady returned and placed money in the busker's fiddle case.

Galway Streets

Galway Street Mural

"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,

How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

W. B. Yeats

Have the cyclists joined the musicians and the dancers? Who knows? Life and art are often indistinguishable in Ireland.

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