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Broadcast # 070707 - Information Page

Broadcast # 070707 Play List.

Shaun Connors - Jokes
Domo - Music & Song Selection
Seamus Moore - The Transit Van
Erin's Medley - Galway Queen
Conal Gallen - Jokes
Maura O'Connell - Living In These Troubled Times
Dolores Keane - Galway Bay
Martin O'Connor - Traditional Irish Music
Jimmy Buckley - Your Wedding Day
Dan Hallissey - Polka Selection
The Waterboys - A Bang In The Ear
 

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Seamus Moore

Like so many other entertainment super-stars Seamus Moore held a variety of jobs including a butcher's apprentice and a building contractor's driver.

Seamus Moore entered and won a talent contest at the I & B Records, Annual Irish Music and dance Festival in Southport with his own composition 'The JCB Song.

Two years later he was presented with a gold record, at the same festival, for sales in excess of 50,000 of the single and cassette.

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Born and raised in County Clare, Ireland, she was the third of four singing sisters, but it wasn't ancient Celt folk tunes in which that household was drenched--but their singing mother's collection of light opera, opera, and parlor song records.

"I'm sure that those have something to do with how I approach singing," O'Connell says now. "I was aware of singing as an art form in itself." With that awareness, and her focus on singing, she has always been most interested in tunes "that haven't been performed by other people." That was a key reason her first public role as lead singer with the tradition-oriented DeDannan never felt entirely comfortable, and the reason why, in the midst of that folk success, she was so attracted to the experimental roots music of America's New Grass Revival when the bands' paths crossed.

"They were instrumentalists who were not bound by the history of their instruments, from a generation who grew up listening to bluegrass, and the Beatles, and jazz. They brought all of that along, and pushed the envelope really far. There was an exciting feeling of creativity there--and a complete disregard for what anyone thought!"

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Dolores Keane (born 1953) is an Irish folk singer. She was a founding member and vocalist of De Dannan, an Irish folk music group. Other founding members were: Frankie Gavin (fiddle), Alec Finn (guitar, bouzouki), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh (bodhran) and Charlie Piggott (banjo). The self-titled debut album Dé Danann appeared in 1975. Dolores left to marry John Faulkner in 1977. They were both multi-instrumentalists. Dolores played concertina, flute, whistle, hurdy gurdy and bodhran. The anthology "A Woman's Heart" (1992), with three songs by Dolores Keane, was one of the the most popular folk anthologies of the nineties.

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Jimmy Buckley was born on the 19th November 1971, he stands at 5-7” and has brown eyes and fair hair. Jimmy, although born and reared in Doon Co. Limerick, now resides in Galway with his wife and children.

Singing and Music plays a huge part in Jimmy’s life and he notes Elvis and Buddy Holly as among his greatest earliest Influences.  Jimmy plays guitar, and his first professional stage appearance was made on the 20th August 1991.

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Dan's music background started at home at the age of eight when he attended piano classes, at ten, he turned to learning the accordion under the guidance of Mort Kelleher and stayed until he won the under 18 All-Ireland Piano Accordion section, seven years later. His father, Michael was a great influence in getting all of the Hallissey family involved in playing music, and with eight of us there, the house was never quiet. Many of Dan's sisters still play and sing both professionally and semi.

The first band Dan played in was a three piece called 'The Supertones', bass, drums and guitar, which included Gerard O'Rourke and Tim Harrington. They were very popular in and around the bars of County Cork and they lasted for about three years. Gerard upped and got married and Tim and Dan then went under the name 'New Dimension', bass, guitar, keyboards and drum machine.

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The Waterboys is a band formed in 1983 by Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland and Ireland. London, Dublin, Spiddal, New York and Findhorn have all served as homes for the group. The band has played in a number of different styles, but their music is a mix of Celtic folk music with rock and roll, or folk rock. After ten years of recording and touring, they dissolved in 1993 and Scott pursued a solo career. They reformed in 2000, and continue to release albums and tour worldwide. Scott emphasizes a continuity between The Waterboys and his solo work, saying that "To me there's no difference between Mike Scott and the Waterboys; they both mean the same thing. They mean myself and whoever are my current travelling musical companions."^[1]

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