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    pubs & venues

• dan sheahans bar & restaurant, sRELANE, oVENS, cO.  CORK  ( Family run Bar & Restaurant with the best of food ,drink and hospitality).

 

         MUSICIANS & BANDS

• Tommy Makem & The Makem & Spain Brothers ( Home of this legendry folksinger/songwriter and also his sons and their friends The Spains).

• CABIN FEVER NW (Female folk duo Dianne Bochsler and Tara Wolfe, perform in true folk music tradition.  Their songs cover the range of human emotion, and their lyrics are infused with nostalgia and feeling.)

• LIAM CLANCY (Home of this folk legend - No introduction needed!).

• THE DUBLINERS ( Home of this long living Irish institution).

• CHRISTY MOORE (Home of this great solo performer).

• TIM O'RIORDAN & NATURAL GAS ( Folk/Trad/Comedy from Langerland, Cork)

• SHANANAGANS  (New England based folk/bluegrass group and great friends)

• EDDIE DILLON (Massachusetts based songwriter/singer and recording artist and friend)

• DICK LEWIS (Great Folk Artist & autor of NOvels& Short Stories)

• GERRY (BANJO) O'CONNOR  Probably Irelands if not the worlds best asset on tenor banjo. Absolutely impeccable, accurate and soulful banjo player who has taken the tenor banjo to new heights in Irish and world music with unsurpassed innovation.

• LUKE KELLY TRIBUTE (Fronted by friend Brian Roebuck paying fitting tribute to the King of folk)

• BRIAN ROEBUCK   (Balladeer/Folk Singer from Dublin and life long Friend)

• AOIFE CLANCY (Daughter of friends Bobby & Moira Clancy. U.S. based  folksinger and dear friend)

• ROBBIE O'CONNELL (Nephew of the Clancy Brothers - One of our best Folk Singers & Song writers - based in New England, U.S.A.).

• JOHN SPILLANE  ( John is a unique and professional singer/songwriter from Cork and has made a huge impression nationally in the recent past and deservedly so.)

• PETER MAKEM (Peter Makem is a great Irish poet and is a native of Derrynoose near the town of Keady in County Armagh.)

 

     GREAT INSTRUMENT MAKERS

• CLAREEN BANJOS (Tom Cussen great banjo luthier from Clarinbridge, Co Galway)

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• BART REITER (Superb craftsman of Openback Banjos in the Vega Tradition)

• DEERING BANJOS (The Great American banjo maker of all styles of banjos in the highest quality)

• FLESHER BANJOS ( Bob Flesher - Outstanding banjos - Seeing is Believing _Check out Website)

• ENOCH BANJOS (Kevin Enoch produces the best around with that individual appeal)

• WILDWOOD BANJOS (Professional Grade banjos at a reasonable - Resonator & Openback)