Future Trad Collective - Future Trad Collective

A project from Michael McGoldrick, Ian Fletcher and Andy Dinan - trad instruments within a myriad of musical styles. Pipes, whistles, flute, fiddle and guitar playing jigs and reels, polkas and Breton gavottes fused with everything from Afro-Cuban Cross-Rhythms, Tabla-driven Funk, Flamenco, Samba, Afrobeat, HipHop to House, Reggae, Disco, Breakbeat and Jungle.

Over the years multi award winning Michael McGoldrick has been a member of Toss The Feathers, Flook and Lunasa, as well as a full-time member of Capercaillie for the last 13 years and touring alongside Kate Rusby, Afro Celt Sound System and Mark Knopfler.

Ian Fletcher first worked alongside Michael as guitarist with Toss The Feathers in 1994 and later his Inner Space project, delving deeper into Electronica. He has collaborated with many different artists, including Electro Funk legend Greg Wilson, Happy Monday's singer Julie E.Gordon and Colombia's HipHop group Systema Solar.

Andy Dinan is a master of the fiddle, having won the All Ireland Fiddle Championship twice. He has played with several artists over the years and has recently teamed up with Adrian Edmondson and Troy Donockley to become a member of the Punk Folk group The Bad Shepherds.