Banjo and Mandolin player, James Harvey, studied Irish Music at the Irish World Academy of music where he graduated with first class honours in 2012. By the age of 16, he achieved many accomplishments including four in a row All-Ireland Banjo titles, a further 3 All-Ireland Mandolin titles and became the Senior World Fleadh Banjo Champion. He recorded four studio albums with the band Goitse, with whom he won a number of awards including Live Ireland’s ‘Trad Group of the Year 2015’ and the ‘Freiburger International Leiter Music Award’ in 2016.He has also become a sought after Banjo Teacher with a number of his pupils winning All-Ireland titles. He has taught at many workshops in Ireland and in Europe and has taught master classes at University of Limerick. He is currently working as a secondary school music teacher in Portlaoise College.