Irish fiddle virtuoso Martin Hayes and Chicago (and Irish-American) guitarist Dennis Cahill have garnered international renown for taking traditional music to the very edge of the genre. Holding listeners spellbound with their slow-building, fiery performances, they distill traditional Irish tunes down to their pure essences and fill in the spaces with moves they've picked up from jazz, blues, rock, country, new age, and even classical styles. The result, says London's Time Out, is "a music filled with calm and silence, the likes of which you've never heard before. Except, perhaps, in brief snatches of a long forgotten dream." The New York Times calls their music "a Celtic complement to Steve Reich's quartets or Miles Davis's 'Sketches of Spain.'"