Dáithí Sproule

Welcome to my website! In my last post I was hoping for a snowy winter here in Minnesota and my wish was fulfilled! Now spring is finally here and the birds are singing and chirping again in our back garden and adding new entries to our bird list (which reached 111 species this morning!). Coming up now the Twin Town Old Time Music Festival, and I’m very happy to be taking part in it this year — a slot in the Friday concert with fiddler Danny Diamond, a session and a couple of workshops. I always praise the old time community here and it’s well deserved — wonderful people and super musicians. In May I teach songs in Irish at Deireadh Seachtaine Gaeilge in Saint Paul, and in June the always great Minnesota Irish Music Weekend comes along. In addition to some workshops, I’ll be part of a very special event — the launch concert for the cd with my fabulous tunepal, Victoria Adiiye — “There but for fortune”. The album features an eclectic (and sometimes electric) mixture of songs and finger-picked and flat-picked tunes on twin guitars, with a good few compositions of my own and featuring two songs with beautiful lyrics from our friend, Barry Foy. There you go for now!