Using Music to promote local wildlife, scenery & history.

Breen Wood is one of the best examples of old Sessile Oak Woods in Northern Ireland. It is a National Nature Reserve & the ancient gnarled and stunted oak trees which form most of the canopy, help to provide the magical atmosphere of this special place. I took the photos which help to show off some of its wildlife.

I composed this tune in honour of the Derrykeighan Stone ( Iron Age c.50AD ) which was only discovered in 1977 in the ruins of the old church at Derrykeighan, between Dervock & Bushmills. I also took the photos used in this video.

This is a musical tribute to the many Castles & Standing Stones of North Antrim. The music accompanies this collection of photographs I've taken of just some of the many magnificent Megalithic Monuments, Castle ruins, Church ruins, Stone Circles, Chambered Graves, Court Tombs, Crosses and Standing Stones, to be found throughout the Causeway Coast & the Glens of Antrim region.

Two Hornpipes played here as another musical tribute, this time to the magnificent stained glass windows that you see in this video & which can be seen in The Allen and Adair Hall in Dervock, north Antrim, in Northern Ireland which, I understand, they are the only physical tribute that exists today, to Lord Nelson, anywhere on the island of Ireland.

The River Bush from source to sea, is a journey, with music, along the River Bush in Co. Antrim, from its source on Slievenanee, through the hamlets of Magherahoney & Clintyfinnan, the villages of Armoy & Bushmills & by Dervock & Portballintrae to the North Atlantic Ocean in 62 of my photographs.

Galboly, the Deserted Village in the Glens of Antrim. Photos I've taken of the deserted village, accompanied here by one of J. Scott Skinner's finest compositions, The Miller O Hirn, played here on Fiddle, English Concertina & Hammered Dulcimer.

The video clips of Bonamargy Friary, near Ballycastle, which I took & used in this video, are accompanied by two Reels, The Witch of Glentow & The Black Nun, composed by Dick Glasgow & played by him on Anglo Concertina & Bodhran.

In memory of Fiddle Maker - Sam Stevenson, of Broughshane Co. Antrim, who was a well respected Fiddle Maker & Fiddle Player. Sam was a founder member of the Derry & Antrim Fiddlers Association & had a great fondness for the fiddle playing of Shetland Fiddler Willie Hunter, especially his playing of Slow Airs.