Trad

If you hadn't come across Music Under the Mountains before, pencil this burgeoning Wicklow Festival next weekend into your increasingly cluttered calendar of Irish traditional music. Electing to kicking off with the seasons of mists and early chills, it's only an ass's roar from the big smoke, while the line-up this year which includes the Chieftains, Dervish, Kila (above), Lia Luachra, Voice Squaddy Phil Callery and box-player Josephine Marsh, is damn sure to ignite torch-sessions throughout all townlands surrounding the village of Hollywood. The patriotic cause that draws the support of such altruistic luminaries is the local Laura Greaves Music Bursary, which feeds into the local loose-limbed trad academy in Hollywood National School - just to ensure that there'll be lots of Wicklow music pouring out of our ears in 20 years time.