Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny's band Mozaik will play Dublin's Vicar Street, on October 5.
Mozaik's other members are Nikola Parov (Hungary), Bruce Molsky (USA), and Rens van der Zalm (Holland and Australia). Between them, the five piece play over 20 instruments. Parov is particularly multi-skilled and plays gadulka, gaida, kaval, tin whistle, clarinet, guitar, and kalimba.
Changing Trains, the band's most recent album was recorded in four different countries. Mozaik has played at many of the world’s major festivals and concert halls in Australia, Japan, USA, Ireland, Italy and the UK.
“I think it was somewhere between Deniliquin and Jerilderie in New South Wales as I drove along on a beautiful December morning that the ''great idea'' came to me," Irvine writes on his website.
"Get a bunch of your favourite musicians together and do a tour of this beautiful country," said the Muse. "I pondered for not very long before emailing the suspects I had in mind. To my delight they were all into it and thus emerged Mozaik, a band to die for . . . ”
Tickets priced €31.50 (including booking) from www.ticketmaster.ie & outlets nationwide
