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| Mick
Moloney's Irish Music & Dance Festival |
 Simply
put, it is inconceivable to think of the Irish music
tradition in the U.S. over recent decades without Mick Moloney
emerging as a key influence, mentor, producer, performer, and
scholar. Or, as an Irish musician reportedly put it, "A
guy like Mick comes along on the folk scene once in a generation --
thank God he was Irish!" |
| Celtic
Fiddle Festival |
 There
are few things as exciting as live twin fiddles ... except for live
trio fiddles, and when it's Kevin Burke, Johnny Cunningham and
Christian LeMaitre, it's a combination that lifts audiences out of
their seats. |
| Seamus
Kennedy |
 Long
before there was a computer on every desk, Seamus was providing
"interactive entertainment" to delighted audiences from
one end of the country to another. He is quick with a quip and likes
nothing better than to discover someone in the audience who is
similarly inclined. |
| Sliabh
Notes |
 At the heart of the Sliabh
Notes sound is the playing of Dónal Murphy and Matt Cranitch, who
in the words of Paul Dromey, Folk Columnist of the Evening Echo,
"have proved themselves to be one of the finest and most
electrifying Sliabh Luachra-style box and fiddle duos you could wish
to hear." Added to this is the guitar-playing of Tommy
O'Sullivan, as well as his very personalized singing style. |
| Old
Blind Dogs |
 Since
forming in 1990, the Old Blind Dogs have stood on the cutting edge
of Scotland’s roots revival. The band has developed its own
trademark style in which dynamic percussion and bluesy harmonica
fuel the delicately phrased melodies of traditional songs. With
their new album Fit?, the Dogs are putting the sounds of
northeastern Scotland firmly on the world-music map.
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| Brian
McNeill |
 Brian
McNeill was born in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1950. He began his musical
training in his early teens with formal violin lessons, but soon
forsook that instrument for the electric guitar. A comprehensive
musical education and a mildly misspent youth were the result -
until his student years brought him to Celtic music. |
| Glengarry
Bhoys |
 The
Glengarry Bhoys are a dynamic group of individuals who have grown to
become forerunners in progressive Celtic rock music by the sheer
love for their craft. The Glengarry Bhoys are only content when
sharing their unique music in as many ways as possible. |
| Paddy Keenan
& Tommy O'Sullivan |
 Paddy's
flowing, open-fingered style of playing can be traced directly from
the style of such great traveling pipers as Johnny Doran; both
Paddy's father and grandfather played in the same style. Although
often compared to Doran, Paddy was 19 or 20 when he first heard a
tape of Doran's playing; his own style is a direct result of his
father's tutelage and influence.
Tommy singing style is as versatile as it is unique. The diverse nature of his life is reflected through it's broad
range. His is often described as a percussive flatpicking guitarist but he also has a highly developed fingerpicking style which is the fabric of his high strung playing and song accompaniment. |
| Máire
Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman |
 The
celebrated virtuoso partnership of Máire Ní Chathasaigh
(pronounced Moira Nee Ha-ha-sig), the most influential, interesting
& original player of the Irish harp today and Chris Newman, one
of the UK's more extraordinary & revered acoustic guitarists,
made its debut at the 1987 Cambridge Folk Festival. They've played
in twenty-one countries - from the Shetland Islands to New Zealand,
from San Francisco to Calabria. |
| Ed
Miller |
 Ed
Miller is one of the finest singers to emerge from the Scottish folk
revival, a guitar-wielding folkie who wins his audiences over with a
sweet but powerful voice, a great ear for material, and equal doses
of populist politics and wry humor. He learned his craft in the
sessions, clubs, and festivals of the folk revival, both in Scotland
and the United States. Ed is the host of a folk music program on
Austin's NPR station, KUT-FM. He is a performer who has learned his
craft in musical venues on both sides of the Atlantic, and a
folklorist who brings his love of Scotland to every performance. |
| Cavan |
 Cavan
performs an astonishing variety of music drawn from and inspired by
the ancient Celtic traditions of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and
Galicia, to which they add a little spice from the Middle East.
Their concerts combine the compelling Celtic dance rhythms: Jigs,
Reels, Waltzes, and Strathspeys, with songs telling stories from
past and present. Since three of the members are composers, they
perform an unusual number of original songs and tunes for a Celtic
band. |
| Jigsaw |
 Formerly
Waifs & Strays, their spirited performance of traditional Irish
music is still their mainstay. Together as a trio for the previous
12 years, Kevin Alewine, Ken and Peggy Fleming are veteran players
with significant involvement in the music regionally for several
decades. Kevin plays flute, guitar, mandolin, banjo and whistle.
Peggy plays fiddle and remains the lead vocalist of the group. Ken
plays button accordion, concertina, banjo, guitar, mandolin and
whistle. |
| bohola |
 bohola, a band forged in
Chicago by three of Irish Music’s most innovative musicians,
Jimmy Keane, Sean Cleland and Pat Broaders, play a driving, muscular,
and yet emotive style of Irish Music with deep roots in the “pure drop” tradition, melded
with the raw and gritty urbanized musical vernacular of the Irish-
American experience.
With each regarded as the tops in his field, this combination provides a powerful, rich
and distinctive sound that is coupled with a dynamic and energetic presence - the sum of
which is bohola. |
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