Whiskey Still

08 April 2010 (20:00 - 23:00)

Dublin's Finest Bluegrass / Folk group

Collectively "Whiskey Still" are Sara Lang, Paul Holohan, Brendan Leeson and Ben Murphy, one the finest working live groups in Dublin today. Irish roots group Whiskey Still are the only Irish group chosen to play for 10 nights in a row at tall ships race in Rouen France.

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Brendan is highly experienced in the traditional music scene. He started with "The Weavers" back in the 60s & since then has been in "The Quare Fellas" featuring Patsy Watchorn & Sean McGuinness, which later became a little known trad outfit called "The Dublin City Ramblers" :-) Brendan also founded "The Buskers" with Paul Furey & Davey Arthur, with whom he toured England, Scotland & Canada throughout the 70s. Paul Furey & Davey Arthur joined up with "The Furey Brothers" From there, Brendan joined "Rakish Paddy" in the 80s with Sean Og McKenna (Barneys brother) on tenor banjo, Gerry Crilly on guitar, Noel Carroll also on guitar & Brendan Leeson, himself on five string banjo. In the year 2000, Brendan joined up with Paddy Leonard, Karen Doherty & Martin Dempsey to form the original "Whiskey Still" line up. Brendan has an extraordinary repertoire of ballads at his disposal & leads the band, as they take in the familiar, fun & crowd-pleasing tunes, jigs & reels alongside the more mysterious, contemplative, storytelling ballads.