Nora and her husband Marty live in Tuam and are wonderful keepers of the Traveller song tradition. They come from the mighty Ward family known for their amazing singers and Nora spent some emotional hours with Sam and the SCC singing a selection of her family ballads and versions of some of the old songs These included; Kate of Ballinamore, Trees They Do Grow High, Galway Shawl, Òran Mór, Early in the Spring,
