Nomos

Cork-based Nomos offers produced a name for itself among the even more innovative and fiery Irish traditional bands. The group created in 1990 and includes Niall Vallely on concertina, Vince Milne on fiddle, Frank Torpey on bodhran, Gerry McKee on bouzouki, and Eoin Coughlan on vocals and bass. Originally the group included Liz Doherty on fiddle and John Spillane on vocals and acoustic guitar. Doherty and Spillane created Nomos with Vallely, Torpey, and McKee at University or college University Cork. The music group adopted a musical route begun by performers like the Chieftains, Clannad, Planxty, Altan, Natalie McMaster, and Eileen Ivers. The group’s fiery sound centers around Vallely’s innovative and powerful concertina playing and Milne’s flashy fiddling. Milne’s efforts screen both his Western world Cork traditions and his affinity for bluegrass. Vallely, of Armagh, also composes and has the reduced whistle. The tempo efforts of Coughlan have already been in comparison to Planxty as well as the Bothy Music group, as well as the bassist/vocalist also writes a number of the group’s tracks. Torpey comes from Wexford, while McKee was created in Lisburn.