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Collaboration can be a challenging experience for any musician. Allowing other artists access to your darlings, giving them the right to change the things that you’ve built with love, sweat and tears over years, it’s not always the most comfortable place to be. In many ways, Ennistymon musician Steve Wall, and the rest of The Stunning, were taking a creative gamble when they invited some of Ireland’s most talented performers to take part in a live recording of their music during the Covid lockdown. But the risk paid off, and with inputs from the likes of Camille O’Sullivan, Niwel Tsumbu, Faye O’Rourke and Zoë Conway, the collaborations were both varied and a little bit special. So special in fact, that the recording has become The Stunning’s latest release, a live album entitled ‘We Come Alive’. “We wanted to mix it up, so that it wouldn’t be predictable. It was exciting, we didn’t do any rehearsals. All the musicians that we …
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