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Bouzouki

Kevin Alewine

February 10, 2019 By Ken Fleming

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Kevin has been involved in Irish music since about 1979 after many years of interest in folk and jazz idioms. He has performed with Ken and Peggy Fleming continuously since 1988 and was a founding member of the Lone Star Ceili Band and the TIMES Band & Session Players. Kevin is moderately proficient on flute, whistles, guitar and cittern, but hopeless on bodhran.. … [Read more...] about Kevin Alewine

Pat Broaders

January 21, 2019 By Ken Fleming

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Pat Broaders grew up in Dublin, the son of parents from Wexford. He began his journey in traditional music at the age of eight. He started out on the whistle, and later moved on to theuilleann pipes under the tutelage of Leon Rowsome. He took up the bouzouki in 1988, inspired by the sounds he grew up hearing from bands like Planxty, and the popularity of the instrument in Dublin’s vibrant … [Read more...] about Pat Broaders

Matthew Cook

November 4, 2018 By Ken Fleming

Matthew Cook has been singing all his life, but when the Irish genre took hold of him, the songs in his head were forever changed. The music touched a part of his heart and his soul that lay dormant, and he was instantly connected into the long history of Irish music. Now he plays and sings Irish Music in the DFW area as much as he possibly can. He plays with the bands Slugger’s Rule … [Read more...] about Matthew Cook

Jimmy Crowley

February 27, 2019 By Ken Fleming

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Jimmy Crowley has been a central figure in the Irish folk scene since the enthusiastic reception of his debut album "The Boys of Fairhill" in 1977. With his band Stokers Lodge, their mission was to present the street ballads of Cork city complimented by the ornate folk songs of the rural hinterland of Cork and Kerry in an exciting orchestration of uilleann pipes, concertina, autoharp, harmonium, … [Read more...] about Jimmy Crowley

Frances Cunningham

January 20, 2019 By Ken Fleming

Frances Cunningham is a native of Southeast Texas and fell into Irish music at an early age. She learned the Irish Bouzouki and became a founding member of the Celtic rock band SixMileBridge which recorded and toured heavily from the late 90s into the 2000s. She then moved to Nashville where she picked up the Tenor Banjo and since then has gone on to be an in demand accompanist and session … [Read more...] about Frances Cunningham

Ken Fleming

February 23, 2019 By Steve Horn

Ken Fleming

Ken Fleming has been playing Irish music for more than four decades in the Dallas area on tenor banjo, button accordion, concertina, guitar, bouzouki and mandolin. His love of Irish music led him to become involved in 1983 in the formation of the Southwest Celtic Music Association and North Texas Irish Festival of which he was the founding president and founding director respectively. In the … [Read more...] about Ken Fleming

Matt Heaton

February 24, 2019 By Ken Fleming

Matt Heaton

Matt Heaton found the guitar after a disastrous start on the trumpet. For $35, he landed a Harmony Electric at a rummage sale in his neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Before landing in Irish traditional music circles, he played in rock bands, fronted a tango quartet, and turned pages and sang in the choir for his organist father. Irish music is home for Matt now, and has taken him around the globe with … [Read more...] about Matt Heaton

Owen Marshall

January 21, 2019 By Ken Fleming

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Vogue magazine calls musician Owen Marshall “A guitar/mandolin/banjo player rivaled in character only by the occasional three-pronged carrot” (Vogue 2009). With the music traditions of Quebec and Nova Scotia just over the border from his home in Vermont and the strong Irish musical scene of Boston to the south, Owen was immersed in the various textures and sounds of the Celtic music from an early … [Read more...] about Owen Marshall

Brian Miller

November 4, 2018 By Ken Fleming

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A native of northern Minnesota, Brian Miller fell in love with Irish traditional music as a teenager in the crowd at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. His passion led him to spend a college semester abroad at University College Cork where he fell deeper in love with the music and the Rebel City–making many happy returns there. Based in St. Paul since 1998, Brian is also the product of the rich … [Read more...] about Brian Miller

Alan Murray

February 23, 2019 By Ken Fleming

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Guitarist, bouzouki player and singer Alan Murray hails from Glasgow, Scotland, where he grew up playing the whistle and later guitar. Eventually moving to United States, he has established himself as an in-demand performer and teacher on the Irish music scene. He has recorded and performed around the world with many of the finest traditional musicians and acts today, including Lunasa, Eileen … [Read more...] about Alan Murray

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