Smokin' Shamrock's

Cormac – Fiddle, Mandolin, Whistle & Vocals

Alan – Guitar, Bongo & Vocals

Cormac Duffin and Alan Crockett, both from Co. Antrim, Ireland have many years of experience playing in different bands and have been playing together for over 3 years.

They have a raw energy that will leave the audience caught up in their adrenaline rush.

Do not miss this experience.

Lift the Ball

Cairan O'Kane is from Cushendall. Cairan's mother and
father are both fine fiddlers in the Glens style. Cairan also plays
fiddle but his main instrument is button accordian. Cairan is also a great
traditional Seanos style singer, unusual in someone so young.

Aiden Prunty is a great flute player in the Sligo Letrim style. He comes from a very musical family. Aiden's wife is a fiddle player and both his children play flute and fiddle. Aiden has a long association with the Armagh Pipers Club. Barry is the main singer of the group, he plays guitar and bazuki (but not at the same time).

Eamon Maguire is well known in Ireland as a Bodhran maker. Eamon Plays both traditional and sometimes with a three piece blues band. Eamon has played all over Europe with different trad groups.

Dal Riada

Dal Riada are a popular Celtic Folk band based in Belfast. They have been entertaining and delighting audiences both at home and abroad with their lively mix of Irish Folk songs and ballads, complimented with up tempo renditions of Irisn and Scottish jigs and reels. All three members are seasoned musicians, well known on the Irish music circuit having played in many other traditional folk and Celtic rock bands. In recent years the members have appeared on stage in support of many of Ireland's leading folk bands and artists including the Dubliners, the Wolf tones and Francis Black. Their shows have gathered a loyal following of supporters.
The members are
Séamas ÓLabhradha
         A multi talented instrumentalist playing fiddle, whistles, bagpipes and various other noisy things. Séamas is well known as a teacher of Irish music and works for the Ulster Orchestra.  He as appeared on Television and Radio with acts such as the Fury Brothers and Derek Bell to name but a few and he has been recorded on many albums playing in support of various artists and bands. His experience as a musician and performance in music sessions and on stage is well established among his piers.
When Séamas plays he injects a blast of excitement into the tune that makes him stand out among others and can bring the band's music to a fever pitch in front of audiences. Séamas is without doubt one of Belfast's finest musicians.

Davy McLarnon
      Is well known in Irish traditional circles as a player of guitar, mandolin and tenor banjo, as well as a collector of Irish folk songs and ballads. In his early days he was to be found playing and singing around some of Belfast's famous session pubs where he learned to love Irish music with a passion. As time went on Davy found himself playing in many great folk and Celtic Rock bands in Belfast and it is this wealth of experience he brings to Dal Riada. He has also appeared on Television and Radio and can be heard on many recordings and albums. His style of playing makes for a great blend and mix with that of Séamas and leads to an explosive and exciting passionate performance.

Dudley McLarnon
       Is the youngest member of the band and provides the rhythmic backbone on the bodhran, G banjo and guitar. He is a fine singer/songwriter. Quite a few of his songs are very funny and reflect his own sense of humor. Dudley has been playing guitar from an early age and has participated in many local bands, gathering quite a few fans and friends of his own on the way. He has also engineered and produced many of the bands recordings including his own compositions on the bands albums. Dudley is most at home when he is belting out some of the great up tempo Irish songs and many of the over seas visitors who have witnessed Dal Riada live shows in Belfast have posted videos on the YouTube featuring Dudley in full flight.

Servants of the Rich

Jeffrey Baird plays guitar (for many decades now) and sings traditional Irish songs, especially songs from the rebel catalogue.  Jeff is an attorney, born in Oregon, educated at Yale, and descended from the the family of Baird's Bar, Glasgow.  He finds songs of Irish rebellion uniquely passionate, giving expression to the long quest for Irish freedom, but also for human freedom.  In that broad sense, Jeff believes "The Men Behind the Wire" speaks as much about Mandela as about Bobby Sands, and "The Minstrel Boy" speaks as much about the American firefighters of 9/11 as the men of 1798, all of whom gave their lives for their friends and for freedom, just yesterday and long ago.

Thanks.

We are the Servants of the Rich...
and SO ARE YOU!

Ockham's Razor

Ockham’s Razor formed in the spring of 2006 and began introducing audiences in the Pacific Northwest to their exciting, youthful style of Celtic and Folk rock music in June 2006 at the Fremont Summer Solstice Festival. As a result, the band was commissioned to write and record their first original song (“A Face, An Echo”) for an independent film.

After working with Grammy-award winning producer Conrad Uno (Presidents of the United States of America, Mudhoney, Posies) on their debut CD, Ockham’s Razor began performing shows throughout the Pacific Northwest, the San Francisco Bay area and Portland.

In the following months, the band of Kris Clements (whistle & vocals), Ben Ireland (guitar & vocals), Katie Corcoran (Fiddle) and Randy Whitelock (Percussion) would continue to write their own music as well as arrange traditional Celtic songs in new, modern ways with an edge and re-introduce audiences to the songs they’ve always loved. The bands fun, young sound and exciting, inter-active stage shows also attracts new audiences to the music who may have never previously listened to Celtic music.

The musical backgrounds and influences of the members of Ockham’s Razor is widely varied which helps create a blending of genre’s into the Celtic music the band creates. From djembe bass lines to electric guitar effects on the fiddle, Gaelic sung classics and modern day mainstream hit songs, Ockham’s Razor is not your typical Celtic band.

Liam Gallagher

Hailing from Belfast, Ireland, this man started singing Irish folk songs in the 1960's, while in his early teens, and a golden time for music in general. With people like the Clancy Brothers, Dubliners, Furey Brothers, Wolfe Tones, Planxty and Chieftans forming the amazing pop culture they provided Liam with a vast repetoire to draw inpspiration from.

Liam spent his twenties and thirties "indulging in the bounty".

In 1982 Liam arrived in Seatlle where he met Kells proprietor, Gerard McAleese at an open-mic session in Seattle. Gerard had just found a location and was in the process of opening what is now Kells Seattle. This provided the venue which Liam was looking for. Well it's twenty-three years later he still entertains at Kells five nights a week! Liam's music can be purchased in Kells online store.

Bernie Irish Folk

Enjoy listening to romping old sea shanties, lovely ballads, wild drinking songs and a few other suprises as well! Bernie has been performing traditional Irish folk music for over twenty years.

Joe McAleese

Joe is Kells founding father. Mr. McAleese can often be found singing along with the band as he has done for years. He has a unique and beautiful voice that lends great accompaniment on stage. Be sure to check him out and say hello if you get a chance, he's one of the nicest men in the world. Joe McAleese has a new CD out as well which can be purchased in Kells online store.

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