Beoga are a five-piece traditional band based in County Antrim. The band was drawn together after ‘jamming’ in a ferocious music session at the All-Ireland Fleadh in August 2002. Their unique sound features the twin duelling accordians of Seán Óg Graham and Damian McKee, along with four times All-Ireland bodhrán champion Eamon Murray and pianist Liam Bradley, and are more recently joined by Niamh Dunne.
Born in America of Anglo-Welsh-Irish-Austrian heritage, Carol Thompson is one of America's foremost players of the Celtic harp, began playing the pedal harp at age thirteen with classical instruction from Dorothy Knauss of Allentown, PA, a student of Alfred Holy. After years of playing classical music, she allowed her lifelong interest in medieval and renaissance history to take to the fore, and learned to play several variants of her instrument.
Growing up in houses just two minutes away from each other in Swords, a working class town near Dublin airport, Steve and Mark met aged eight, when they were the only boys in the school choir. Skip forward six years and they recruited Vinny, also situated a stones throw away and together set about forming the first of myriad bands. The line-up for Kodaline was recently completed by the addition of bassist Jason Boland. The band's name, incidentally, means absolutely nothing for the moment they wanted something they could take ownership of.
Bassist for Flogging Molly and a solo artist in his own right, in High School Nathen started playing bass in a punk band called PBS. Nathen also played bass as a founding member of the group Jim McCray.
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Belgrade singer/song-writer Bojana Bulatovic Bo (vocalist, guitar, harmonica) combines her self-made acoustic approach based on the path of Patti Smith, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, with contemporary electronic dance rhythm on her debut album "Mene treba ovaj grad, bas ovakvu kakva sam sad" (2003, Mojo Beat, Serbia), ( I Am Needed in This City Just the Way I Am Now".) This unexpected fusion was Koja
Luka Bloom (born 23 May 1955 as Barry Moore) is an accomplished Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is also the younger brother of Irish folk singer Christy Moore. In order to avoid the pressure of being related to Christy Moore, Bloom adopted his pseudonym. "Luka" is taken from the title of Suzanne Vega's song "Luka" about child abuse and "Bloom" refers to the main character in James Joyce's Ulysses. Bloom is, however, very forthcoming about being Moore's brother and does not hide behind his stage name.
Cry Before Dawn are a four piece rock band from Wexford, Ireland. During the 1980's they released two albums and a number of singles, with some chart success in both Ireland and the U.K. During their more successful years they toured the U.K. extensively, supported Big Country and appeared on the Wogan show on BBC television, After a number of small line-up changes, the band eventually broke up in 1992.
Formed in Belfast in October 2010, Eatenbybears have had a busy year of writing, rehearsing,recording and gigging constantly ending their summer with festival slots at Tenant's Vital, playing support to Eminem and then opening the Crawdaddy Stage at Electric Picnic, where they were lucky enough to share the bill with acts such as Arcade Fire. Following early releases of singles "Vanderhoof" and "Spite Houses" which were given the thumbs up by BBC Radio1's Rory McConnell, as well as bands such as 'And So I Watch You From Afar" and Glasvegas"...
