Paahto & The Bull
Sat 17 Oct 2026
8pm
€20
We welcome PAAHTO & THE BULL to Levis Cornerhouse...
8pm Over The Shop Counter
SATURDAY 17th October
Book Early - Limited Capacity.
TICKETS GO ON SALE Friday 31 July 2026, 1pm BST
Paahto & The Bull is the guitar-duo project of Patrick "Paahto" Cummins and John Francis Flynn.
Having met and played together since 2011 and having cut their teeth at The Maple Hotel on
Dublin's Gardiner Street, Paahto and John helped form the Irish traditional group Skipper's Alley in
2013 and would remain long-term sparring partners and an integral cog in Dublin's traditional and
folk music communities. Once There Was A King was another of their musical endeavours which
reached into a progressive musical space in its short-lived timespan. However, as with any
collaboration between these two players, Paahto & The Bull is beyond a meeting of two musical
minds and encompasses a very personal element.
During the covid-19 pandemic, the pair experimented with music on two guitars inspired
by
Paahto's interest in bluegrass flat-picking and John's very original approach to accompaniment.
Beginning with just an Instagram page to post some amateur material, Paahto & The Bull decided
to take the project more seriously and gradually worked towards recording an album with the help
of Brendan Jenkinson and Ben Rawlins. The ethos for the duo has always been to focus on
simplicity and only features the musicians playing their guitars despite them both being multi-
instrumentalists and singers.
The music of Paahto & The Bull is a very honest reflection of the unique kind of sound that
Cummins and Flynn have consistently created with each other over the past fifteen years and,
although one might have expected their initial release to be a banjo/guitar product, the lateral
thinking that went into choosing a guitar duet is also very in line with the particular flavour of
progressive that these lads strive for. The statement is firm: "This is what we play. This is how we
play. And this is what we are going to play."
Having signed with Claddagh Records in late 2025, Paahto & The Bull will be releasing their debut
album during 2026.
