Music Network in collaboration with IMDL (Irish Music and Dance in London) are proud to announce a tour of Ireland, London and Paris featuring Kevin Burke, Dermot Byrne, Noriana Kennedy and Jim Murray, who come to the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith on Saturday 28th February 2026. This is an unmissable, new collaboration featuring four extraordinary artists who have shared their music with audiences over four decades of Music Network’s National Touring Programme.
Kevin Burke, Dermot Byrne, Noriana Kennedy & Jim Murray
Saturday 28th February 2026
London Irish Centre, Hammersmith
52 Camden Square, London NW1 9XB
Doors 7.30pm. Tickets: £18/ £7 U18s → Buy tickets
Promotial video for the tour
They are on an extensive tour to mark 40 years of Music Network tours., appearing all over the place.
Clare fm spoke with Noriana Kennedy before their stop in Clare
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Last night I was at the Ennis performance, the second gig of the tour.
As I said to someone before going ‘it gets us out of the house’ during the wet, dark and bleak end of the winter.
Four great musicians, your usual smattering of jigs reels, polkas and slides plus a variety of songs, including a Bothy Band tribute act of Pretty Peg/Craig’s pipes and Do you love an apple, interspersed with a Carolan piece, various Americana, and old time bits with Kennedy frailing away on the banjo, a Valse Musette etc. All tastes catered for, or as my wife put it ‘there’s something for everybody’
Regurgitating a Jackie Daly joke was perhaps a bit of a low (the Sliabh Lucrative one), for me anyway, especially when introducing one of Micho Russell’s slides (but then, I have heard Jackie’s jokes, all of them, dozens of times).
Very fine playing all round but I felt no emotion or spark, no excitement. Like eating a good meal but coming away feeling you’re not fully nourished. Still a decent excuse for a night out on a misty, wet winter’s night.