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Dusty Young
has done it all in show business. Singer, songwriter, musician and actor.
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Daniel Francis Noel O'Donnell MBE (born December 12, 1961) is an Irish singer and former professional wrestler from County Donegal. With his mix of country and easy listening music, he has achieved success in both Europe and North America. He has starred in seven concert specials seen on public television stations (PBS) throughout America. To date he has sold over 10 million records worldwide. More On Daniel... Mary Duff's phenomenal talent as a singer, together with the great stage presence and charisma she possesses, is testimony of her quietly powerful and captivating persona. There is a genuine warmth about this lady that touches all who come into contact with her, and she enjoys a dedicated, very supportive fan following. Mary is seen in the music business as an accomplished, polished, and highly respected professional performer. More On Mary.. |
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 Sean Brennan |
Sean plays in and around the dance scene in Co. Roscommon. His debut CD is
called 'Songs, I Love To Sing' and it is a collection of beautiful ballads,
waltzes and jives which delights the hearts of everyone who listens. This CD
has 10 great tracks and is dedicated to Sean's Parents, Bridget and Johnny
Brennan for their love and support. |
 Robbie O'Connell |
Robbie O'Connell was born in Waterford, Ireland and grew up in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, where his parents had a small hotel. He began to play guitar and sing at age thirteen and soon became a regular performer at the hotel’s weekly folk concerts. He spent a year touring the folk clubs in England before enrolling at University College Dublin where he studied Literature and Philosophy. During school vacations Robbie worked as an Irish entertainer in the U.S.A. In 1977, he joined the Clancy Brothers with whom he has recorded 3 albums, and two years later he moved to Franklin, Massachusetts.With the release, in 1982, of his first solo album, Close to the Bone, Robbie emerged as an artist of major stature. Soon after, he began touring extensively with Mick Moloney and Jimmy Keane, and also with Eileen Ivers and Seamus Egan in the Green Fields of America. In 1985, the trio's first album, There Were Roses, was released. Robbie also participated in The Festival of Mountain Music and Dance on a five nation tour of Latin America. In 1987, the trio followed up their very successful first release with the album, Kilkelly, the title track of which was voted "Best Album Track of the Year" in Ireland. 1989 saw the release of a live concert recording of the Green Fields of America. More... |
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De Dannan (originally Dé Danann) was an
Irish
folk
music group. They were formed by
Frankie Gavin (fiddle),
Alec Finn (guitar,
bouzouki),
Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh (bodhrán)and
Charlie Piggott (banjo)as
a result of sessions in Hughes's Pub in Spiddal,
County Galway, subsequently inviting
Dolores Keane (vocals) to join the band. They named themselves Dé Danann
after the legendary Irish tribe,
Tuatha Dé Danann. The group released their self-titled debut album Dé
Danann in 1975.
Keane left to marry John Faulkner in
1977. (They
were both multi-instrumentalists, and recorded 3 folk albums together.) To
fill the vacancy, Dé Danann brought in
Johnny Moynihan for the second album Selected Jigs Reels and Songs,
which featured a bodhrán solo by McDonagh (this album has never been
released on CD, reportedly because the master tapes were lost). More... |
 Collin Raye |
Collin Raye... Five times nominated as country music's Male Vocalist of the Year, Collin Raye has consistently used his stardom to advance social causes. Among the organizations he has supported are Boys Town, First Steps, Al-Anon, Special Olympics, Country Cares About AIDS, Catholic Relief Services, Parade of Pennies, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, The Tennessee Task Force Against Domestic Violence, The Emily Harrison Foundation, Childhelp USA, Silent Witness National Initiative, Easter Seals and Make a Difference Day. At the 2001 Country Radio Seminar, Clint Black presented Collin Raye with the organization's Humanitarian of the Year award in recognition of Collin's issue-oriented music and his tireless charity work. But when the album he released later that year wasn't successfully promoted, Collin asked for his release from Sony. Contractual roadblocks didn't allow Collin to seek a new record deal for a period of time. Eventually he was able to aggressively try to get back in the record business. More... |
 Kevin Prendergast |
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 Hugo Duncan |
Hugo Duncan is a singer and BBC broadcaster
from
Northern Ireland. His
nickname is "The wee man from
Strabane".He has two
music programmes on
BBC Radio in Northern
Ireland; Country Afternoon with Hugo Duncan on
Radio Ulster each
weekday from 13:30 to 15:00, and on
Radio Foyle, every
Sunday from 15:00 to 17:00. The theme tune used on his
BBC Radio Ulster show
is
Rocky Top, while he
closes each programme with
Yakety Sax, also
known as the theme to
The Benny Hill Show.
Hugo is also a live singer, playing in various venues throughout Northern
Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. For a recent charity event, Hugo
dressed up as
Britney Spears and
sang Spears' classic "...Baby
One More Time". More... |
 Mick Flavin |
Mick Flavin
grew up in a thatched farmhouse in Ballinamuck, Co. Longford. Working on a
farm and running wild through the fields was a favourite part of this
country boy's young life. His early home life was centred around an old
record player and this influenced his interest in music and in people like
Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Hank Williams and Tex Ritter. On his way to the
well for water he always held the bucket over his head so he could hear the
reverberation of the sound when he sang.. His first guitar cost the princely
sum of £4 and he learned to play it from a Guitar Tutor he bought in
Denniston's Music Shop in Longford. From the expertise he acquired playing
his guitar and singing, he received an offer at sixteen years of age to play
in a local band, which lasted two years. To support his music he acquired a
trade and concentrated on qualifying as a carpenter. Based in Dublin, he
availed of every opportunity to see his favourite Country and Irish Bands
playing at The National, Ierne, Irish Club, Garda Club, etc. |
 Philomena Begley |
Philomena Begley, the Queen of Country Music. Philomena was born in Pomeroy, Co Tyrone, where she grew up with a love for Country Music, at the tender age of 15 years she stepped on her first stage 'for a dare' she says, in Ardboe on the shores of Lough Neagh. By 1977 she was undertaking a major tour of the United States and in 1978 was invited to sing at the Grand Ole Opry. Since then she has returned annually to Nashville, been a guest of honor at the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York and has sung at both the Grand Old Opry and Carnegie Hall. Now 40 years later Philomena Belgey is phenomenon drawing in the crowds for an audience with the 'Queen of Country Music'. She is married to Tom Quinn, and has three children, Mary, Aiden and Carol where they still reside in the hometown village More... |
 The Tradition Band |
Tradition is a five-
piece band from greater Boston. The band plays all styles of Irish music, as
well as classic rock, country and folk. Tradition is particularly suited for
weddings, festivals, Irish dances and corporate functions. The group has
been together for 18 years and our members have a combined 100 years of
experience in various musical genres. |
 Patrick Feeney |
Patrick Feeney
was born on the 9th day of December 1982, Battlefield Culfadda,
Ballymote, Co. Sligo. His father Patrick and mum Elizabeth and his brother
and two sisters lived in the townland of Battlefield, Culfadda. He attended
his local national school in Culfadda while farming with his dad. At that
time Patrick was sure he was going to be the farmer of the house. His
brother James who is now a “physcologist” was only interested in the books
and had no interest in the land. His sisters Monica who is a hotel manager
and Stella who is currently studying, all thought Patrick was going to keep
on the farming but as Patrick was growing up he was learning to play the
drums and keyboards and it was quite obvious he had an interest in music as
well. More.. |
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Charlie and his five-piece band play to sell-out audiences and are well
known for keeping concertgoers enthralled with his heartfelt and telling
lyrics and his very human anecdotes. Charlie Landsborough is a performer who is difficult to categorise, sometimes folk, sometimes country, sometimes rock ‘n’ roll, sometimes gospel. If you go into a music shop, you may find Charlie’s music in the Country or the Easy Listening section but this belies the nature of a man who is uncomfortable with labels but spans various musical forms. Charlie was, for a long time, unsure of his own talents and, indeed, when he first took the initial tentative steps as a songwriter, it was more as a vehicle to showcase his vocal talents than to express his own personal insights; though, as anyone who has listened to Charlie’s music would agree, he shows a depth of compassion and understanding which seems almost incongruous to his simplistic yet captivating style. More... |
 Makem & Clancy |
The Clancy Brothers were an
Irish
folk
music singing group, most popular in the 1960s, who are often credited
with popularizing
Irish traditional music in the
United States. The brothers were
Patrick Clancy,
Tom Clancy,
Bobby Clancy and
Liam
Clancy. They are most well-known for their work with
Tommy
Makem, recording dozens of albums together as The Clancy Brothers and
Tommy Makem. In March 1956, Tommy Makem was out of work; he had landed
himself in Dover, New Hampshire, where many of his family members had
immigrated to, working in the mills. A two-ton iron printing press fell on
Tommy's hand, crushing it. His hand in a sling, and knowing the Clancy
brothers down in New York, he decided that the time time was right to record
a record. He told this to Paddy Clancy, who had founded a record company,
Tradition Records, to release Diane Hamilton's recorded material through.
Paddy agreed and brought in brothers Tom and Liam, as well as Tommy Makem,
to record an album of Irish rebel songs,
The Rising of the Moon. |
 Sean Smyth |
In 1996 with a lineup of Mayo-born Sean Smyth on fiddle and
whistle, Tyrone-born Trevor Hutchinson on double bass, Dublin-born Donogh
Hennessy on guitar, Belfast-born John McSherry on uilleann pipes and
whistle, and Manchester-born Michael McGoldrick on flute and whistle, the
Celtic band Lunasa was born. In 1997 this quintet's self-titled debut CD was drawn mainly from concerts given in Cork, Galway, Mayo, and Dublin, and the impact created by their mostly live playing on that album was visceral. Stunned by these superlative performances, I immediately decided to place "Lunasa" in my top 10 list of recordings for 1997. McSherry and McGoldrick had left when Lunasa recorded their second CD in 1999, "Otherworld," though both musicians guested on it. Birmingham-born, Clare resident flute, whistle, and bodhran player Kevin Crawford was on board by then, and he provided Lunasa with a new spark in both musicianship and crowd communication. More... |
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