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Tony DeMarco

Tony DeMarco is one of America’s finest folk fiddlers. A Brooklyn native of Irish and Italian decent, he is among the worlds leading exponent’s of the sophisticated County Sligo style of Irish fiddling. Tony’s playing has all the characteristics of great Sligo fiddling: swinging rythmic drive, a wealth of bowed and finger ornamentation, and a high degree of improvised melodic variation. Sligo fiddling has been closely associated with the New York Irish musical tradition for many yesrs.

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Mustard City Rockers

Formed in Febuary 2006 Mustard City Rockers consist of members of Norwich bands Project Mork, The Antix, Visual Offence, Skudder, TCR, Wine-o, Black veins, Protection Racket, Back Bench Revolt, Semtex, Bens Little Rebellion and Judder and The Jack Rabbits. Wanting to play something more pleasing on the ears than punk rock they all decided to pick up strange mystical instruments that they could not play but would also look funny on them.

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Ben Carrigan

"Ben Carrigan is a founding member of multi-platinum selling and award winning Irish pop group 'The Thrills.' The band celebrates 3 top 10 albums and 7 top 40 singles. They have also toured extensively worldwide and collaborated with some of the finest musicians on the planet. More recently, however, as a graduate of the jazz and classical traditions, Ben has also been quickly gaining notoriety in Ireland, the UK and the USA for his work as a composer for film and television and for arrangements and orchestrations he has written for a number of other artists.

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Nuala Kennedy

Nuala Kennedy grew up in Dundalk, Ireland where she was a member of the ceilidh band Ceoltoiri Oga Oghrialla. In 1995 she moved to Scotland and she now lives near Kincraig in the Highlands. She is best known for her work with trio Fine Friday, with whom she has toured extensively and recorded two critically acclaimed CDs, "Gone Dancing" (2002) and "Mowing the Machair" (2004). An accomplished and versatile musician, with a wide repertoire of Scottish traditional and contemporary music...

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Kinetiks

BIOGRAPHY Touted as "...'kin Brilliant!" by the Irish Times, The Kinetiks have etched out a solid reputation as the cream of the crop of Ireland's most promising breaking buzz bands. Nominated for the 2FM/Meteor Hope For 2008 Music Award, The Dublin based indie-pop rockers, still in their early 20s came together sharing influences from Beach Boys to The Strokes and The Hollies to The Libertines. Confident, charming, giddy and energetic have been used to describe the group's impressive live performances.

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False Image

False Image are an emocore band from Bolton, England. Having established themselves in 2004, their local success has continued to excel over the years, with performances in some of the UK’s most recognised rock venues. The band are Gary Talbot (Vocals), Simon Govan (Lead Guitar), David Galway (Guitar), Paul Butterworth (Bass) and Danny Govan (Drums). Their latest CD "This Much, This Early" is their most significant to date.

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Owensie

One day when I was 8 years old, a man came into my classroom in school. One by one he got each of us to sing the scales. His name was Robert Daly. I was picked along with some other boys from my class to join “the choir”, which was St. Cecelia's Guild of Choiresters in Haddington Road (or see http://sites.google.com/site/guildofchoristers/ussinging). I started out as a soprano and began to learn the basics of music theory through Mr.

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Sultans of Ping F.C.

Crazy, psycho-happy Cork punk band, singing and screaming about shopping, sheepdogs, toilet bowls, turnip-fish, and Japanese girls. Listen and laugh a lot. Their 1992 album Casual Sex in the Cineplex contained much of their best material, including Stupid Kid, You Talk Too Much and the perennial student-night favourite Where's Me Jumper?, but many amazing b-sides were great too: Turnip Fish, Armitage Shanks & Riot at the Sheepdog Trials

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