Cormac de Barra

Cormac de Barra is a harpist, singer and television presenter and is part of the Moya Brennan Band. De Barra comes from a family of traditional musicians and singers from Dublin but with roots in County Cork. He studied Irish harp with his grandmother, Róisín Ní Shé, in Dublin and went on to study concert harp in the US with Leone Paulson. "I was born and grew up in Dublin although the De Barras originally come from Cork. I started playing the harp at the age of 10 with my grandmother, Róisín Ní Shé and went on to spend some of the best summers of my life studying concert harp in the USA." Cormac's professional debut was a six-month tour in Osaka, Japan playing in the Irish Exhibition at Expo '90. While in Japan he gave a performance...