Ceol: Basement bounty from the Burkes

Certainly the Sept. 26 house concert that Burke and his wife, guitarist-accordionist Anne Conroy Burke, gave on a small, platform stage in Conway’s condominium basement in Ossining in Westchester County, N.Y., bore out that statement. Before some 60 people, many of them musicians (Mike Rafferty, Patty Furlong, Myron Bretholz, Rose Conway Flanagan, Daniel Gurney, Maeve Flanagan, Dylan Foley), Joe Burke played the B-C button box with a fluidity and lift that allowed the music to breathe. There’s a joyous glint to his style, the kind any fiddler would enjoy complementing, and Andy McGann, Se