The Sea TBDIn 2014 my wife Bonnie and I went on a Irish Music Tour with Mick Maloney,  a traditional Irish musician, academic and scholar. We visited Belfast, Dublin and the west coast of Ireland exploring the beauty of the west coast and the Aran Islands while listening to traditional Irish music and meeting many of the classic Irish musicians. It was a joyous ten days that  exposed us to many of the locals as well as the greats of Irish music and literature. Their sounds, warmth and spirit flowed as did the Guinness. We heard stories of Lady Gregory and William Butler Yeats when visiting Coole Park - County Galway. The love of the musical traditions and sounds hopefully comes clear in my photographs.  They have a strong working class character that pulled me in wanting to be captured through my lens. The Irish people have a long history of struggling for their independence from Great Britain- their music, literature and art all help clarify and document their history.