Irish singer and multi-instrumentalist Andy Irvine has been coming on The Music Show for over thirty years, so he's the perfect person to start our occasional 2026 series Music Now & Then, in which Andy (Ford) speaks to long-running guests about how the world of music around them has changed over the years. Andy spoke to Andy in front of a gaggle of session-goers at the Gaelic Club in Sydney.

The Music Show is recorded on Gadigal, Gundungurra and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country

Technical production by Harvey O'Sullivan and Simon Branthwaite