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Biography

Gráinne and Úna O Boyle

Gráinne qualified from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown with an honours degree in musical performance and accompaniment in piano, voice and violin. She performed for six seasons in Renvyle House Hotel. At thirteen she featured, playing piano, on Ireland’s most prestigious talk show “The Late Late Show” hosted by Gay Byrne. Gráinne was director of a School of Music in Duleek, Co. Meath until she took up teaching orchestra and choir in Greenhills, Drogheda, Co Louth. She has directed and assisted many choirs and folk groups. She has written and arranged works for the church including an entire mass in 1998, which was performed in the Augustinian Church in Drogheda in the same year. More recently Gráinne has written the music for her own wedding performed in December 2001.

Úna studied singing at the Bel Canto School of Singing in Dublin. She received a Heineken/ Hot Press music award in 1997 for her creative work with recording duo Hyper[borea]. She has released three albums here in Ireland and a release in America and Great Britain. Her new album "Gaelactica" was released in February 2003 to great critical acclaim and a solo album is on the horizon. As a solo artist she has headlined in Ireland's famous listening venues including Whelan’s Dublin; The Cobblestone, Dublin; The Lobby, Cork; Garavogue, Sligo…etc. She has worked as songwriter and singer with many established musicians in Ireland and abroad including Thom Moore, John Faulkner and Oisín Lunny. She has also featured on many television programmes on RTE, Network 2, TG4 and BBC. In 1999 she released an album of Christmas Carols in Irish, entitled “Amhráin Nollag”.  
(You can listen to tracks off “Amhráin Nollag” on http://www.owlrecords.com/anollag.htm )

Únaiand Gráinne’s varied education and experience in music has created a unique sound when they perform together. In the beautiful atmosphere of the church their voices blend and harmonise like only sisters can achieve. Their original style, (developed over the past twenty years of performing at Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, mixed and registry weddings in Ireland and abroad), ranges from folk, gospel, traditional Irish, Gaelic, classical and original. They have performed at weddings and other religious ceremonies across Ireland from Adare Co. Limerick to Dublin to their home village of Duleek, Co. Meath. They have personalised weddings with songs in Japanese, German, Spanish, Maori and Irish and with songs of special importance. Their instrumental talents in piano, organ, guitar, light percussion and violin accompany this magical experience. They have a very obvious love for music and have never failed to bring that life and love to their listeners wherever they play.