Seamus Kennedy

Seamus Kennedy, originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been entertaining audiences all over the United States for over 32 years. With a ready wit and a vast store of songs, he travels from Alaska to Florida, Maryland to California, performing for audiences, which range from Popes and presidents to bartenders and bricklayers.

In concert or festival, in pub or club Seamus Kennedy has the repertoire and the ability to make folks forget their cares for a while, to relax and enjoy themselves. He encourages the crowd to sing along to silly lyrics and daft ditties or act out the choruses of children's songs. When he plays a lively Irish jig or a reel, Seamus will often coax someone to jump up and dance to the music of his guitar or bodhrán - to the delight - and often amazement - of their friends. His audience participation songs and tongue twisters have amused the ablest of participants and the nimblest of tongues.

But the Irish have their serious side too, and when Seamus performs one of the more somber ballads such as Tommy Sands' "There Were Roses" or Pete St. John's "Dublin In The Rare Old Times" you can hear a pin drop as the words sink in. That moment of silence before the applause can raise goosebumps. Seamus' greatest influences have been the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, the Dubliners' Luke Kelly, and the Irish Rovers, so it is no surprise to find many songs that they made famous, such as "The Wild Colonial Boy", "The Wild Rover," or "The Black Velvet Band" in his performance. So come and enjoy the music and mirth of one of Ireland's most popular exports - Seamus Kennedy!

Harry O'Donoghue

Harry O'Donoghue was born in the town of Drogheda on the East coast of Ireland.
At age twenty he began playing guitar and was soon performing with local folk groups. In 1979 Harry founded the group Terra Nova and later that summer they won a prestigious award for Best Folk group at the Dublin International Music Festival. Within a year the group was touring in America and secured a recording contract with Polydor Records in 1985. When Terra Nova performed their last concert in Augusta Georgia in 1987 Harry embarked on what was to become a very successful solo career. During the next few years he concentrated on songwriting and released several critically acclaimed albums throughout the nineties.

Harry has performed, by invitation, with The Savannah Symphony and has shared the bill with such international recording artists as Mary Black, Andy M. Stewart, Cathie Ryan, The Fureys, Natalie Mac Master, Danny Doyle, The Wolfe Tones, The Shannon Castle Singers, Tommy Makem and others.

He performs throughout the U.S and Ireland in a variety of settings from concerts to festivals, clubs, private events, conventions and singer/songwriter showcases. Harry also hosts singing workshops, passing along folksongs in the oral tradition and customizes and guides tour groups to Ireland each year.

Harry co-produces and hosts The Green Island Radio Show, a popular weekly Georgia Public Broadcasting program highlighting Celtic music in it's many forms; traditional, folk and contemporary. He has been voted best Folk Artist by the readers of Connect Savannah Magazine every year since 2000

Fiona Molloy

Fiona Molloy was born and raised in Derry, Northern Ireland. She started playing piano and singing entire songs before she could talk! In her mid-teens, Fiona began classical voice training and at 16 Fiona discovered guitar.

In 1975 Fiona joined the Peace Women of Derry as the movement's singer, to represent the youth of Northern Ireland. For the next 18 months, she traveled with them throughout Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales, singing at rallies and conventions and appearing on television and in newspapers. When the rallies ended with a huge finale at Trafalgar Square in London, onstage with folk legend Joan Baez, Fiona sang before a crowd of 200,000 people.

Fiona has had many interesting jobs in her long career not least of which was playing 2nd understudy to Elaine Page of the original Evita cast in London. Fiona moved to the US in 1977 and has never looked back. She has preformed for many dignitaries, businessmen and entertainers among them are Nelson Mandela, Paul Simon, Carrie Fisher and Donald Trump. Fiona also preformed at The White House for President Ronald Reagan and his wife. She has sung the American National Anthem at New York's Yankee Stadium twice and once at Shea Stadium.

Fiona now performs at festivals and pubs all over the Midwest and travels to Key West, Florida several times a year to entertain the men and women of America's military in Finnegan's Wake Irish Restaurant.

Guaranteed Irish

Guaranteed Irish have been performing Irish ballads and dance music for over 20 years. Their name refers to an Irish marketing effort similar to 'Made in America' and reflects their respect and passion for the music. Paddy Folan, Bruce Foley and Jimmy Lamb combine button accordion, guitars, uilleann pipes, whistles and voices in their own distinctive and energetic way to make a sound that is true to the traditions of Irish music. Whether singing traditional ballads or interpreting modern folk/rock/pop songs, their vocal harmonies are tight and spirited. With an easy, collaborative charm the lads are equally at home in a small session or on stage in a pub, concert hall or festival.

Guaranteed Irish play primarily in their hometown of Pittsburgh but have journeyed throughout the Eastern United States. They have been part of the line up on Ireland At Sea for several years and have had three memorable tours of Ireland - the latest in August 2008 with venues from Belfast to Clifden and packed houses wherever they played. They have opened large concerts for such notable acts as Paddy Reilly, Patrick Street and The Irish Rovers.

The group has recorded three very well-received CDs, reissued several times and aired on all the major Pittsburgh radio stations and frequently on Connemara Community Radio in Galway, Ireland. The boys also contributed four cuts to the Andy Stewart tribute CD; It's All In The Song.

Boyle School of Irish Dance

The Boyle School of Irish Dance is owned and operated by Alannah Boyle Sweeney, TCRG, and Ellen Boyle Gibbons, TCRG. Alannah and Ellen are the daughters of Irish immigrants. They grew up immersed in Irish culture, music, and dance. Trained in New York as dancers from the ages of four and five, they have won regional and national championship competitions throughout the United States and Canada, qualifying on multiple occasions for the World Championships in Ireland.

The Boyle sisters have performed with such Irish music greats as the Chieftains, Cherish the Ladies, Tommy Makem, Paddy Reilly, The Wolf Tones, 7 Nations and Black 47. Their choreographies have been performed throughout the D.C. Metropolitan area and some have been sold and performed by other professional dance companies.

In 2006, Alannah Boyle Sweeney and other Boyle School dancers performed throughout the Caribbean on board the Carnival Legend. The Boyle School sailed again in 2007, dancing on board the Carnival Miracle. Yet another team performed in the Caribbean in 2008 as part of Ireland at Sea. The Boyle School won "Best Irish Dancing School" in the D.C. Saint Patrick's day parade in 2006. In June of 2007 Boyle School dancers were chosen to do a performance preview at Wolf Trap on the opening night of Riverdance.

The Boyle School is a certified Irish Dancing School and a member of the An Coimisiun le Rinci Gaelacha in Dublin, Ireland. The School, almost 400 students strong, holds classes in Alexandria, Chantilly, and Manassas, Virginia.