Traditional Sessions in the Café (Spring 2024)

Tony DeMarco Tony Demarco is a world class Irish fiddler from Brooklyn, New York. Tony's fiddling has been featured in music programs at New York University organized by Mick Moloney, as well as the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick headed by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. He has also been recorded on the Smithsonian folkways records. Tony has been performing and teaching Irish fiddle music for more than 30 years and is now one of leading living exponents of the New York/Sligo fiddle style. The late Paddy Reynolds, Andy McGann and Martin Wynne were very influential on Tony's playing, as was the music of New York/Sligo fiddlers of the generation prior, including Michael Coleman, James Morrison, Paddy Killoran, and James "Lad" O'Beirne. Tony's album The Sligo Indians, released in 2008 is tribute to this style and the musicians that shaped his music. His landmark The Apple in Winter album with Brian Conway is a highly regarded example of the old Sligo-style twin fiddle music from New York.