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FROOTS MAGAZINE 2007

Far more inspiring is the debut album by another Riverdance-featured fiddler, Kerry's Niamh Ni Charra, and it's certainly bolstered by her exceptional concertina playing (no better revealed than on the opening set's audacious trio of slip jigs). The aptly named "From Both Sides" reveals a wonderfully sensitive player of airs (on both instruments), a sprightly interpreter of itinerant harper Carolan's music, someone innately capable of rendering the jauntiness of hornpipes (check Wade Hampton's for evidence) and a marvellously dextrous player of her county's pet tunes, such as a set of slides kicked off by Johnny O'Leary's.

Froots Magazine, July 2007