Bandroom Lane Sessions at Finn's Folk Club presents troubadours Hank Wedel & Ray Barron.

One of Cork’s finest and longest running sessions has been the Hank & Ray session held every Monday Night in Charlies Bar on Union Quay, Cork City. North Americana, Latin American melodies, Rock & Roll, Bluegrass and Folk remain the foundations of the session but on the structure is an open house where many people have joined in, singing along or simply soaking it all in.

Hank Wedel and Ray Barron, full-time musicians their whole lives have busked around Europe, toured the world with their respective bands "Princes Street" and "Open Kitchen", (Hank Wedel); "Bone Idol", "Two Time Polka" (Ray Barron) and somehow they both managed to make it back most Mondays as a constant in a particular corner of a bar on a quay in Cork...

The beauty of the session is that you can never be sure what will happen whilst Ray plays his mandolin and Hank plays guitar and sings as they pull songs from their never-ending setlist. The guests included John Spillane, Mick Flannery, Johnny Moynihan, Ron Kavana, Mary Greene, Eileen Healy, Eleanor Healy, Anna Mitchell, Elly O'Keefe, Clare Sands, Liam O'Maonlai, Sean Long and Declan Sinnott. Also countless touring musicians like New York’s Tom Clark and Craig Chesler, Nashville's Roni Stoneman, Amsterdam’s Andre Van der Hoff and France’s Serge Desaunay... and pretty much every Cork based up-and-coming musician since 1994...