Niamh Ni Charra may have joked that she would be playing jazz after her concertina developed a dodgy A note in transit but her whole performance followed in the spirit of a grand jazz tradition: the visiting soloist playing with a local rhythm section, a situation that pitches together musicians who possibly haven't even met before and who have no preparation beyond a quick run-through beforehand.
Ali Hutton, of the Treacherous Orchestra and many another outfit, was that local rhythm section, and a fine job he did of it, lending guitar accompaniments that spurred on Ni Charra's fiddle and concertina tunes with well-judged impetus and framing her songs with apposite harmonic colour and shape.
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