Her daughters, Sorcha and Od Kelleher are also actively involved in the local trad scene. Singing seems to have found its spiritual home here in the Ring gaeltacht. Luke Abbott runs a regular dance club in The Roxy where unseemly hordes take to the floorboards with a vengeance. Abbott brings in DJs from the U.K., as well as supporting local DJs. Abbott is anxious for any interested jocks to contact him if they'd like to sample the dance scene in Waterford city.
Live music is alive and kicking, albeit a tad inconsistently.
Derek Verso , Waterford City's Arts Officer is quick to point to the healthy public spending on the arts, and on music in the region, especially when compared with other counties and cities. Waterford City spends more punts per capita than any other council or corporation nationally. This amounts to 7.35 per person, which puts Dublin Corporation to shame with its paltry allocation of 3 per head of population. Verso is heavily involved in Artbyte , a public arts and music initiative which runs every Wednesday at lunchtime from May to September this year. The idea is to showcase talent from the spheres of dance, music, theatre and poetry, in a range of venues throughout the city.