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Davy Rogers
(mandolin)
1984
Davy Rogers
(tenor banjo)
1995
Davy Rogers and Pru Comer
in Somerset October 1982
Uli Wolf (who died in June 2007) and
Davy Rogers. Guinness moustaches in
Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare, July 1985
A street session on a hot
July day in Milltown Malbay,
Co. Clare, July 1991

Davy Rogers, Uli Wolf (R.I.P.) and
Vicki Mogridge outside Clancy's
Bar, Milltown Malbay, co.Clare, 1989

Fionnuala ni Hynes (singer)
and Davy Rogers from "The Clare Champion" newspaper July 1996
Davy Rogers at the
Pillar Bar,  Ballinasloe,
co. Galway, 2012
Sean Tyrell (tenor guitar) at the
Castle Inn, Castledaly,
co. Galway, 2002
Davy Rogers
at home practising
1985















Davy Rogers
at a Green Gathering
near Glastonbury,
Somerset, U.K.
Davy Rogers at a Green Gathering
near Glastonbury, Somerset, U.K.
Lecturing at his workshop
on the music of Carolan]
Pru Comer (guitar), Davy Rogers (banjo)
and Victoria Mogridge (fiddle) - Jiggery Pokerybusking at a street music
festival in Frome, Somerset, U.K. 1988
Davy Rogers (tenor banjo)
at The Talbot Inn, Mells,
Somerset, U.K.
(pub session)
Davy Rogers (mandola)
and Vicki Mogridge (fiddle)
at Hylands Bar, Ballyvaughn,
co. Clare, 1991






Joe Foley (bouzouki) in Clancy's Bar
at the Willie Clancy Summer Schooll
2001 in Milltown Malbay, co. Clare
Cork singer and multi-instrumentalist
Jimmy Crowley at the Castle Inn,
Castledaly, co. Galway October 2002
Máiréad ni Mhaonaigh, Dermot Byrne
and Brendan o'Reagan at the Crane Bar,
Galway City 2003
Davy Rogers (mandolin)
and Victoria Mogridge (fiddle)
rehearsing at home

Victoria
Mogridge
(fiddle player)
Joe Foley (bouzouki) and Sean Tyrell (mandocello) during the Willie Clancy
Summer School/Festival 2000
in Milltown Malbay, co. Clare
Tom Walsh (mandola) & Brian Rafferty (guitar) at the Malbay Hotel Bar,
during the Willie Clancy Festival '01
in Milltown Malbay, co. Clare
Oliver Deveney and Davy Rogers
performing at the Joe Cooley Festival,
Gort, co. Galway
Oct. '03
Brothers Brendn (R.I.P.)
and Michael McMahon
in Cleary's "the Blondes" Bar,
Milltown Malbay, co. Clare, July '90
Tommy Peoples (centre)
and Pat Simmonds (right)
in trad. session in Toronto.
Thanks for sending the photo Pat
A very very old photo of
Johnny Moynihan and Andy Irvine
at an unknown venue in the late 60s
Johnny Moynihan (mandola) and Clive
Collins (fiddle) at The Village Inn
Kilchreest, co. Galway2004
Johnny Moynihan (accordion) and Clive
Collins (fiddle) at The Village Inn
Kilchreest, co. Galway2004
Johnny Moynihan (playing my banjo)
at his 64th birthday party in
Peterswell, co. Galway, 2004
Johnny Moynihan, Clive Collins and
Brendan "hairy" Harte at
Peterswell, co. Galway, 2004
Johnny Moynihan, Clive Collins and
Brendan "hairy" Harte in
Peterswell, co. Galway
  in 2004
From "The RTE Guide" 27th May 1994
Davy Rogers and Vicki Mogridge busking
at the "Tastes of Europe" weekend,
Westport, co. Mayo, May 1994
Clive Collins (singer, fiddler & 5-string
banjo player) a friend who passed
away in North Carolina April 2006
R.I.P.
Kevin Coyne (accordian) at Hartes Bar, Gort during the Joe Cooley Memorial Festival, Gort, co. Galway
Oct. 2004
In the Lucky Star pub on Inis Mór,
Aran Islands (Máiréad Casey (whistle)
Davy Rogers ( guitar) and
Nic Power (bodhrán) April 2006
My dear father Dennis Rogers
who passed away
31-03-2004 aged 80

R.I.P.
Simon Knight (accordionist, and singer).
Fellow band member of Jigger Pokery
and a greatly missed old friend

R.I.P
Peter Lynch (singer & bodhrán player)
from Virginia, Co. Cavan (& late of Oslo,)
at the Willie Clancy Festival, Milltown Malbay, co. Clare. R.I.P.
Peter "Pappy" Power from Tramore
Co. Waterford, a friend who is
sadly no longer with us
R.I.P.
Dublin born
tenor banjo player
Johnny Keenan
R.I.P.
Ron Kavana & John Lyons (R.I.P.) at the
Willie Clancy Festival in Milltown
Malbay, co. Clare,
July 2012

Tom Walsh (R.I.P)

Des Mulkere (banjo and flute) from Cruishin, Co. Clare
at Yeats Lodge, Peterswell, Co. Galway
27th October 2008
Norman Smith, (R.I.P.) a good friend
from London and Westport
Co. Mayo who died in 2007
Micho Russell, (R.I.P.) whistler, singer
and shanachie from Doolin, Co. Clare
who died 19-2- 1994
Dave Harper, Moya Fitzgerald
and Seanie o'Gorman
at the Willie Clancy Festival,
Milltown Malbay 2000
Moya Fitzgerald
Seanie and Barry Carroll (dulcimer)
at the Willie Clancy Festival,
Milltown Malbay 2000
The Blue Laddybucks
(Davy Rogers centre)
at the Willie Clancy Festival,
Milltown Malbay 2000
Davy Rogers and singer John Dunne
at the Willie Clancy Festival,
Milltown Malbay
2010
Galway Band Cuchulainn
Padraig Feeney, Dónal Morkan (R.I.P.)
Tony the Twat, and Davy Rogers
at Taafes Pub, Galway 2004

MY INSTRUMENTS
Takemine
G Series E523SC guitar
(with acoustic bug & pre-amp)
Dobro
(resophonic guitar)
made by Amistar of Prague
Hohner
12 string
guitar
Irish Bouzouki made by Joe Foley
Dublin in 1989
(with acoustic bug & pre-amp)
Hybrid mandola (neck with
fiddle scroll) by Phil Davidson.
Made from a Yugoslavian bouzouki
10 string cittern made from
an original German 9-string
wald-zitthern (similar to the old English
guitar or gittern,
or the Portuguese guitarra)
Ancient triple-coursed
12 string mandolin
of
German origins
maker unknown
Mandolin  copy
of
Gibson A-model
by
Mike Vanden
7-string fretless (open-backed)
banjo with thumb string similar to
5-string banjo and recently
added modern tuners
replacing original friction pegs)
Custom short-neck
Tenor Banjo
by Phil Davidson, Bristol, UK 1985)
,with a brass tone-ring
& birds-eye maple resonator)

   
 
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Thanks to my old friend Pru Comer
for the above original artwork




              


    






Phil Davidson, Luthier, in his Workshop (2015)

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