Ciarán Curran

Yeah, that was my background.

And funny enough, just when I'm sitting here with Alton, the first person to actually put a bouzouki in my hand was Ciarán Curran.

Alton were celebrating 25 years, and there was a residency, and I was playing banjo at the time.

But there was nobody to learn the bouzouki from Ciarán, so they handed me a bouzouki.