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Laura Ciporen talks with Sophie Lavoie, François-Félix Roy, and Fiachra O'Regan ahead of their Nov. 21, 2025 concert at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Visit folkmusicny.org for more info on this event and more folk and trad music content.
Grosse Isle explains the group's name, discusses folk music's role as community and its power to make a grandmother cry with a fiddle tune, and why Fiachra, the banjo player of the group, cuts the banjo out of his monitors when they play.
