While playing bluegrass music on guitar and upright bass fiddle, he became
interested in the origin of the instrumental fiddle tunes. Listening to WXPN Radio
in 1983 he heard a recording by the Boys of the Lough, a Scots/Irish band,
and his direction in Celtic music was established. Learning the tenor banjo,
mandolin, button accordion and bodhran, Al began playing for clubs, festivals
and ceili's around the area with several local groups before helping to form his
latest band Blackwater.

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