The Accordion,Irish flute,ConcertinaandUileann bagpipesare traditional Irish instruments commonly played in Irish Trad. These instruments are utilised by Irish musicians in combination with more familiar instruments, such as guitars and pianos, to create songs that feel both modern and distinctively Irish...
Sean Dermot Fintan O'Leary Jr. (born 24 May 1973), better known as Dermot O'Leary, is a British-Irish television presenter for ITV and a radio presenter for BBC Radio 2. O'Leary's radio career began when he worked as a disc jockey at Essex Radio, but he is best know...
The recordings of the Irish fiddler Michael Coleman inspired him to take part in Irish pub sessions. He teamed up with guitarist and singer Bob Johnson until 1970 when he joined Steeleye Span. The parting was short-lived, as Johnson himself also joined Steeleye Span in 1972. Birthplace: ...
Dominic Carmen Frontiere (June 17, 1931 – December 21, 2017) was an American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist. He is known for composing the theme and much of the music for the first season of the television series The Outer Limits. Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut 41 Dominic ...
Known in his hometown as the "Irish Justin Bieber," Niall Horan auditioned for "The X Factor" (ITV, 2004- ) as a solo act but was instead grouped with fellow contestants Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson to form the boy band One Direction. After coming in third...
In October of that year, he filmed moving-picture sequences of Roundhay Garden, Leeds Bridge and his brother playing the accordion, using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper negative film. This work may have been slightly in advance of the inventions of contemporaneous moving-picture ...
Their politically-tinged music was informed by MacGowan and Stacy's punk backgrounds, yet used traditional Irish instruments such as the tin whistle, banjo, cittern, mandolin and accordion. Birthplace: London, United Kingdom Steve Jansen Age: 65 Stephen Batt (born 1 December 1959), kn...
She learned piano at the age of five from her mother, later learning violin and eventually the accordion, which she later used in a musical career. Her acting career stemmed from an incident in school where, after being caught smoking, a teacher encouraged her to try the profession as a ...
As a musician, Polívka has earned acclaim for his skillful accordion playing, which he often incorporates into his stage performances to great effect. Drawing on his Czech heritage and blending it with modern sensibilities, Bolek Polívka has created an artistic legacy that continues to shape...
The music is similar to folk music often using violin and accordion. He won a Swedish Grammy posthumously in 2006. Edwall also owned a theatre, Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra in Stockholm, which he bought in 1986 and operated until his death in 1997 of prostate cancer (it is now managed by ...