Gregory Harrington from The Rise, Mount Merrion is a classical Music Star and Ireland’s leading classical violin soloist. His great-great-grandfather Turlough O’Carolan ,was a blind fiddler from County Louth. Gregory has toured the world, produced two albums, and performed multiple times at Carnegie Hall. Rather than isolating himself within the classical music community, Harrington makes it his mission to find a way for classical violin to speak to each of his listeners, from high schoolers to Vice President Joe Biden.
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