THE LEGENDARY Pyros are back this weekend when they play two concerts in aid of Scoil Iosagáin’s music therapy programme in the Inishowen Gateway Hotel. The Pyros – Kevin Doherty, John Cutliffe, Ciaran Tourish, Paul Rodden, Michael Gallinagh and Laurence Doherty – will be joined by Altan accordionist Dermot Byrne and renowned fiddler Tommy Peoples on Friday night. Meanwhile, they’ll be joined on stage by the Henry Girls on Saturday night. The music therapy programme – the only one of its kind in the Republic – was established in 2006 and funded by the Department of Education, but State funding was withdrawn after just one year and now the school, in conjunction with parents, has organised these fund-raising concerts to ensure the service, delivered by music therapist Louise Kelly, can be retained......
[Inisowen Independent, 26th March 2009]
