Mad Dog McRea
Plymouth-based Irish/Folk band. Notable for live performances in the Plymouth area, and for their stellar cover of "The Bear Necessities".
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Eddie & the Hotrods
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Colum Sands
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Great Big Sea
Great Big Sea (often shortened to GBS) is a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs. The band also performs original material. On March 11, 2010, Great Big Sea celebrated their seventeenth birthday as a band. And like almost every one of their many anniversaries spent together, they celebrated it by playing a concert, this one in Omaha, Nebraska.
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De Danann
This may seem like an incorrect tag for De Dannan, but De Dannan also recorded as De Danann. In fact, their first four albums, beginning in 1975 were cut under the De Danann name. Their debut album was called "De Danann."
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Finbar Wright
Having won all of the major singing awards at Feis Ceoil, Dublin and having represented Ireland at the BBC’s Cardiff ‘Singer of the World’ competition, he began his solo career in 1990 with the release of his first best-selling album ‘Because’. Since then he has recorded six solo albums, one of which, ‘Whatever You Believe’, (produced & conducted by the renowned Mike Batt), was a Christmas Number 1 in 1992, selling more than 100.000 units in the island of Ireland alone.
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Brenda Cochrane
Brenda Cochrane, sometimes known as The Voice, is widely regarded as one of Scotland’s greatest hidden talents. She is still remembered by many as the young woman who won the TV talent show Opportunity Knocks back in 1988 with the largest ever recorded vote with her stunning rendition of New York New York. Since then she has appeared regularly on the Scottish stage and is in demand by the world's top cruise lines.
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Cherish the Ladies
All-female Irish-American group Cherish the Ladies was formed in 1985 in New York. They take the name "Cherish The Ladies" from a traditional Irish jig. The current members of the group are Joanie Madden (flute, whistle and harmony vocals), Mary Coogan(guitar, banjo, mandolin), Heidi Talbot (lead vocal, bodhran), Mirella Murray (accordion), Roisin Dillon (fiddle) and Kathleen Boyle (piano)
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Finbar Furey
Finbar Furey (b.1948 in Dublin, Ireland) is considered one of the finest Uilleann Pipes players in the world.
He was (is?) a member of the legendary Irish traditional group The Fureys.
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Declan Nerney
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