Bonus EP - The Restoration of Michael O'Shea's Mo Chara

To Here Knows When - Great Irish Albums Revisited

Following on from episode 6, this is a bonus episode - a short feature focusing on the restoration of Michael O’Shea’s instrument he called Mo Chara (my friend). After the reissue of Michael's album his family loaned artist and musician Stano one of two surviving iterations of Michael’s Mo Chara that they’ve had since his untimely death back in December 1991. The instrument had lain idle for almost 30 years when Stano asked percussionist Thomas Haugh to help restore it. Michael played the Mo Chara on Stano’s debut album and now almost 40 years later Stano and Thomas are recording with the Mo Chara again. It’s a spiritual story about how musical instruments have a life of their own. Episode notes are here.