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Over the past 50 years, the quiet man of Delgany has worked his magic with pretty much
As with all great musicians who make it their business to play with other great musicians, Fiachra’s midas touch can be heard on young Van’s 1989 comeback album, Avalon Sunset, his string arrangements taking the Cypress
You get the picture. And the surround sound. The man has worked with some of our planet’s finest artists, whilst still finding time to compose soundtrack music for the likes of People’s Century, A
And the fecker’s still going strong. A fact that will be plainly obvious at The Whale come Valentine’s night, when Fiachra joins sirens Carmel McCreagh and Flo McSweeney return to The Whale

Fiachra, don’t fail me now…
s GG’s cunning mother always says, it’s the quiet ones that you really have to watch…
Take Fiachra Trench – unassuming, always smiling, always hiding back just a little in the crowd, and yet, were you to hear the music that swirls around this man daily, you’d soon be shouting his name from the rooftops.
the full A-to-Z of music, from the bould Altan to Hans Zimmer, from Joan Armatrading to the zany George Ivan Morrison.
Avenue crank to ever greater heights of fancy many times over the years. It’s there too on one of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, Fairytale of New York, our boy’s strings taking this drunk tank singalong into the widescreen sweep of a Hollywood classic.
Thin Lizzy were the first big clients (with solo Phil later becoming a regular collaborator), followed swiftly by such notables as Paul McCartney and Wings, The Boomtown Rats, Elvis Costello, Finbar Furey, Kate Bush, The Corrs, The Chieftains, Paul Brady…
Love Divided and The Boys & Girls From County Clare, and also orchestrating the film scores for dozens of others, including Die Hard, Into The West and Pearl Harbor.
for another round of
Music was all around me as a child. Records, the radio. Classical, light music, Irish traditional.