Hy Brassyl mixes up music from Ireland with influences from jazz, blues, Brazil, Cuba, the Jewish and Romany diaspora and a lot more besides.

Hy Brassyl are Colm Ó Riain on mad violin, guitarist Geoff van Lienden, Tim Kelly on stand-up bass and multi-percussionist James Greenfield.

Watch out for this new band out of San Francisco - there's a lot to come. As Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow exclaimed after hearing them, "these guys know how to dance you!"

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