2004 was an important year in the history of Seamus Grant’s music. The McGlinchey Summer school had the theme of ‘Big Nights’ as its central story – music, song, dance, ceili houses and more. As part of that event Michael O’Súilleabháin presented a concert of traditional music with string quartet and Mel Mercer on percussion. It was a grand occasion. In negotiating the appearance and the concert line-up, I was bold enough to insist that Michael would feature our local fiddle player, Seamus Grant. He was really enthusiastic and a great promoter of local music, styles and musicians. The rehearsal, with Mick Deneiffe, was a casual affair in The Spout. During that rehearsal Seamus had told me that he had spent many nights ‘ceilidhing” with Patrick and the other neighbours in the house.  I had very few recordings of the tunes Seamus played and wanted to record some. So I invited him to spend an afternoon at The Spout where I would record him on a new ‘digital’ audio recorder I had bought. To make it more relaxed I asked our good friend Mick Deneiffe to come along (Mick’s son Kieran who was learning fiddle came along for part of the day.