Keelan McGrath

Keelan McGrath is an award-winning button accordion player from Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary, whose competition record reads like a decade-long argument that he is among the finest traditional musicians of his generation. He claimed the Bonn Óir Seán Ó Riada Gold Medal at sixteen — the youngest ever to do so — and followed it with multiple All-Ireland titles at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, including the Senior Button Accordion title in 2022. His debut album, The Reel Road, released in April 2026, draws on the North Tipperary musical heritage that shaped him — the playing of Paddy O'Brien and Seán Ryan — while weaving in his own original compositions alongside the reels, jigs, and hornpipes he has carried since childhood.