TROTWOOD is  both  a  French  family and an Irish traditional music group. They spend every summer  in the Dingle Peninsula, in the West of Ireland where they used to live before settling down in France again. They now give  concerts in Europe on a professional basis.

              

                             Over the years, they have developed their own style and write their own music and lyrics, still close to the Irish tradition, adding to it the personal touch suited to the choice of their instruments.

             

                               After they started as a professional band, the name TROTWOOD  replaced by degrees the name their Irish friends gave them:  na francaigh ?  (which, in Irish, means the French.)

TROTWOOD is composed of four singers, who also play a variety of instruments: : the Irish Harp, the fiddle, the Irish diatonic button accordeon (bosca ceol), the old time Irish flute and tinwhistles, and also banjo, guitars and cello...

TROTWOOD's wide repertoire has its roots in the traditionally oral Irish pub and farm culture: jigs, reels, polkas, slides, hornpipes, planxtys, songs and ballads, either traditional (oral transmission), or written, composed and arranged by TROTWOOD.

Over the years, TROTWOOD have given more than a thousand concerts in Europe (Paris, London, Dublin, Geneva, Zurich, Warsaw...), recorded eleven albums (Number twelve is under way), and been invited to a number of radio and television programmes. In Ireland, their C.D.s may be heard on local and national networks.

TROTWOOD have played in many different venues: concert halls (such as the Auditorium in Monthey, Switzerland), chateaux, churches ( Cathédrale Notre Dame in Paris, the basilica of Jasna Gora in Czestochowa, Poland), liners (the Norway), festivals, holiday resorts...