Aidan O'Rourke - An Tobar: An Tobar is the Tobermory Arts Centre, now celebrating it's 10th anniversary year with a series of special events, one of which has been to commission fiddle player and composerAidan O'Rourke to compose a new piece of music, An Tobar - The Well. The 40-minute suite is made up of five compositions, drawing on local sources in Mull for inspiration. With poetry specially written for the project by award-winning writer Aonghas MacNeacail, the music reflects on the origins of communities and settlements on Mull and the effect of modern times on the island.
The album features an excelellent musical line-up: Catriona McKay – Scottish Harp; Phil Bancroft – Saxophones; Martin Green – Accordion; Martin O’Neill – bodhran/percussion, and Aidan O’Rourke – Fiddle.