Laoise Kelly One of the new generation of Irish traditional musicians, harpist Laoise Kelly was born in 1973 in the town of Westport in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland. She studied music at Maynooth College and University College Cork and picked up first prize in the All Ireland Harp Competition.

Later, having completed her studies, Laoise began to tour extensively, travelling to places as diverse as Africa, the UK, USA, Canada, Holland, Germany and Switzerland. She has collaborated on projects such as Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin's "Lumen", which was performed at the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, "Africa I Remember",

the title track on the "River of Sound" series for BBC/RTE and on the orchestral piece "Famine Suite", composed by Charlie Lennon to commemorate the Great Famine of the 1840s.

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