Short press quotes

 "Magnificent... The instrumental quality is outstanding"
* * * * * SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

”Brilliant, innovative harping and guitar-playing of astonishing virtuosity and versatility”
* * * * SONGLINES

“An eclecticism and spirit of adventure that is quite thrilling”
THE TIMES (UK)

“Dazzling virtuosity”
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK)

"Sublime"
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD (Australia)

“Chris is amazing... one of our greatest musicians”
BBC RADIO 2 (UK)

“In a class of their own”
THE GUARDIAN (UK)

“Music of fire and brilliance from the high-wire act in traditional music”
* * * * THE IRISH TIMES (Ireland)

“Remarquables de virtuosité et de grâce”
TRAD Magazine (France)

"The mood is ever changing - sometimes haunting, sometimes boisterous but always magical. The pair's imaginations know no bounds"
THE BRISBANE COURIER-MAIL (Australia)

“So moving... Technical brilliance and beauty that brings tears to the eyes”
IRISH MUSIC MAGAZINE (Ireland) 

"Blazing guitar and dancing harp"
DIRTY LINEN (USA)

"String magic of a special kind... a perfect duet... extraordinary."
PFORZHEIMER ZEITUNG" (Germany)

"Simply magnificent"
RHEINPFALZ (Germany) 

“Their stagecraft was masterly and their introductions informative and funny”
THE CHRISTCHURCH PRESS (New Zealand)

“Did things I have never heard a harp do before... Astonishing... An extraordinary event”
CLASSICAL GUITAR MAGAZINE (UK)

“Their blinding technique, sizzling Irish reels and hot jazz improvisation brought an extended standing ovation... Newman has the great gift of being informative and hilarious simultaneously”
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN

“This celebrated duo took the place by storm. Stately Carolan tunes, jazzy Django-ish numbers, dazzling Doc Watson style flat picking fliers, driving Irish dance tunes - this pair can nonchalantly do the lot. Guitar players applauded and went sadly home to burn their instruments!”
THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH (Ireland)

“When Máire started, she was alone, now hundreds of harpists in Ireland use the techniques she invented. That is an extraordinary legacy.”
THE IRISH EXAMINER

“Fine work by this celebrated duo: Newman led us on death-defying sprints while Máire confirmed her status as one of the world’s greatest harpists”
EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS

“Percussive brio… death-defying sprints… dazzling”
THE GLASGOW HERALD

“Máire and Chris are a classy double act whose music, for all its subtlety and elegance, lacks nothing in power.  … extraordinary virtuosity… There is a sure-footed confidence, bordering on bravado, even in the most technically demanding passages.”
THE IRISH EXAMINER

“The name of Máire Ní Chathasaigh is by now as synonymous with the Irish harp as that of the last of the bardic exponents of that instrument, Turlough O'Carolan… Máire Ní Chathasaigh is to harping as Christy Ring was to hurling: the best, the most gifted, the greatest.”
TREOIR MAGAZINE