Product Description

Billy McComiskey is a highly regarded player and composer of Irish traditional music. A Brooklyn native, in his early teens he started studying
accordion with the late Sean McGlynn from Galway. He won the All-Ireland Senior title in 1986. He formed and played with two legendary trios:
Washington DC's Irish Tradition and the internationally acclaimed Trian. He is known on both sides of the Atlantic as an indefatigable session player,
teacher and promulgator of the music. On Outside the box, Billy's first solo CD in almost 25 years, the listener is once again reminded why Billy is known as 'the most accomplished B/C box player to emerge from Irish America'.
Featuring: Matthew Bell, Myron Bretholz, Liz Carroll, Brendan Dolan, John Doyle, Joanie Madden, Sean McComiskey, Mick Moloney, and Athena Tergis.
Produced by John Doyle

Review

Every listener of 'Outside the Box' can now experience the ever-widening ripple effect of Billy McComiskey as the finest B/C button
accordionist in Irish-American music. He is revered by box enthusiasts on either side of the hyphen. Or as Billy himself put it: My playing is Irish but unmistakably American. --Earle Hitchner (Wall Street Journal, Irish Echo)
Simply the best Irish accordion player in America, McComiskey is also one of
the best in the world. --Steve Winick, All Music Guide