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Celtic Clan-a band to be
reckoned with!
NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS frankryan123@gmail.com
Booking (781) 331-8022
Click below for LiveIrishMusic
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3 Free mp3's from our CD The Big Jig"
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Celtic Clan
E-mail mailto:frankryan123@gmail.com
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Notice! This website is getting expensive to run and time consuming with over 4000 links-and growing every day and is now considered the largest and most comprehensive of it's type with 50,000 hits per month-and rising!. Many sites demand membership payments or a request to" Click on one of our Sponsors" to generate revenue. The site then has pop-up menus all over the place which annoys everybody and hinders enjoyment -I have had numerous such offers but have declined-after all the site is to promote Irish/Celtic music and culture with a sense of humour.......HOWEVER...I have a solution....my band "Celtic Clan" has just released a new C.D.....and good stuff might I add. You can purchase a copy on-line by credit card over a secure circuit from CDBABY (if you wish to purchase a copy by money order please e-mail me frankryan@liveirishmusic.com ) and a portion of every sale will go to the upkeep and further advancement of LiveIrishMusic.com I have placed all requests for links for everyone who has requested them and most times not linked back to here-GET ON IT !! So click on the CD cover (left) to be taken to the CDBABY site where you can sample 2 minutes from 4 of the tracks-and hopefully purchase a copy for U.S.$14.00 (plus shipping)!! Keep music ALIVE by keeping it LIVE! Frank Ryan |
Celtic Clan as it currently stands
formed
about 5 years, are based in
Boston MA. USA but can be seen and heard in the strangest
of places-maybe
even in your home town!
Being primarily an Irish band,but also delving
into all facets of popular
music,Celtic Clan can best be described
as "a band for all
reasons". They blend
Irish, Rock’n’Roll,
Top 40, Comedy and Traditional
with equal fervour and can go from a slow ballad to a
rousing "ELVIS PRESLEY" in
the "blink of a tonsil".
Their instruments range from Guitar, Bass,
Fiddle, Tin-whistle, Tenor banjo, Concertina and
percussion with a bit of
Uilleann-pipes
thrown in!
Audience participation is a large part of their
performance and sing-along
songs are featured in abundance.
They currently have a CD called "TO BEAT THE
BAND" available by sending an email above
CELTIC CLAN BIO INFORMATION
The Culprits!
Frank Ryan and
Hughie Purcell--both from
Dublin Ireland and
Billy Hardy from Cape-Cod Massachusetts.
Associate member Rich Danforth.
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FRANK RYAN
Originally from
-Dublin's inner-city
,Frank is the mainstay and lead-singer of the band.An
accomplished songwriter with versatile voice and and aggressive rhythmic
guitar-playing
with undertones of Spanish and Classical influence among his strengths. Extremely
quick-witted with that Dublin "flair-for-the imaginative", Frank has performed throughout the world and has appeared on numerous T.V.shows,recordings and radio. He is
ultimately responsible for booking the "gigs", setting-up the sound ,and keeping
the other band members "sober".... (yeah-roight !).
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BILLY HARDY
From the beautiful CAPE-COD area of Massachusetts
in the U.S. ,Billy is a SUPERB fiddle-player possessing a silky
smooth touch (so silky in
fact ,that it should be in a "Victoria’s Secret" Catalogue!)... tinged with fire
and adventure.Billy also doubles on vocals and concertina and apart from designing and
building his own fiddles Billy is the founder member of "THE CAPE COD
FIDDLERS"-a group of 11 musicians performing concerts throughout the Cape. They
currently have 2 CD’s called
"Concert Collection vols. 1 and 2"
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Ah yes...Hughie....who has a great future BEHIND
him.... lights up a room ...every time he LEAVES it ......where would one begin ... mmmm.... lets see..Hughie is a "throwback" ( and he should have been!) to the Joycean era of Dublin Quick caustic wit with a flair for "embellishment" of the facts and turning a meager walk to the store into an alligator infested fight to the death saga! Oh yeah...he is also a fantastic musician-playing Tenor Banjo, Bass, Drums and Guitar. Hughie has a CD called "Prisoner of Youth" on which he plays all the instruments and composed all the songs-kinda like Ireland's answer to "SEAL"....we call him "GASKET"
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RICHARD DANFORTH From Barrington RI, Rich plays Uilleann Pipes-a beautifully haunting sound
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Be Sure and Call of the venues before
venturing out to see us as
sometimes dates get changed and just because a date is not mentioned here we
could be doing a wedding/private party/corporate function etc.!
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PERFORMANCES AND VENUES
SHERATON HOTELS.
FORD MOTOR CO.
Governor Mitt Romney-inauguration
PARK PLAZA HOTEL BOSTON.
IBM/LOTUS.
JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY.
MARRIOTT HOTELS.
GUINNESS.
CONGRESSMAN JOSEPH P. KENNEDY (CAMPAIGN).
JOHN F. KENNEDY JR.
THE INN ON 5TH AVE. NAPLES FLA.
THE DUBLINER, WASHINGTON D.C.
THE BLACK ROSE, BOSTON.
NEWPORT IRISH FESTIVAL.
STONEHILL
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GUINNESS FLEADH
GALWAY BAY OYSTER FESTIVAL
MAKEM & CLANCY (OPENING ACT).
DE DANNAN
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MAURA O' CONNELL "
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MARY BLACK
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SILLY WIZZARD
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STOCKTON'S WING "
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THE ABOVE IS JUST A BRIEF SELECTION OF THE MANY AND VARIED VENUES AT WHICH CELTIC CLAN HAS PERFORMED.
mp3's from "The Big Jig"
Track 03. See the hand that holds the gun.
(1.0 MB...32kb/sec bit rate.....time :4 min 16 sec)
