Robbie O’Connell

Vocalist/songwriter Robbie O’Connell continues to be called “a country wide treasure” in Ireland and “a get better at of Irish music” in america. He began an effective solo profession in 1982 using the discharge of his debut, Near to the Bone tissue. Previously, he spent amount of time in a group known as the Green Areas of America alongside Seamus Egan and Eileen Ivers. He also performed and documented using the Clancy Brothers, his uncles. Their cooperation included many CDs along with a 1992 appearance at Carnegie Hall in NY. A indigenous of Waterford, O’Connell grew up in State Tipperary in Carrick-on-Suir. When he was 13 he got to the level as a vocalist and guitarist at his parents’ resort, which hosted folk concerts weekly. Later he performed British folk pubs to get a year before learning to be a pupil at University University Dublin. When summers provided a rest from the analysis of idea and books, he going to the U.S., where he quickly found employment simply because an Irish vocalist to help purchase his education. The knowledge cemented his desire to execute. O’Connell moved into the Clancy Brothers lineup in 1977 and proceeded to produce a trio of albums using the group. By the finish of the 10 years, he settled completely in Franklin, MA. After he released Near to the Bone tissue, the vocalist toured frequently using the Green Areas of America, in addition to with Jimmy Keane and Mick Moloney. O’Connell thinks that keeping a submit a number of musical efforts will help maintain his music refreshing. He shows songwriting during Boston College’s Gaelic Root base Week, at Western world Virginia’s Augusta Traditions Arts Workshop, with Boston’s Summertime Acoustic Music Week. In 1989, Boston’s WUMB called his Love from the Property album the very best Acoustic Record of the entire year. Two years afterwards he garnered a Boston Music Prize in the group of Exceptional Celtic Take action. O’Connell headlined a salute to Irish music hosted from the Lincoln Middle for the Performing Arts in 1994. Also through the ’90s, O’Connell was involved with several recordings including his personal Never Discovered to Dance in 1993 along with the Clancy Brothers albums Old But No Wiser in 1995, Clancy, O’Connell & Clancy in 1997, as well as the Crazy & Wasteful Sea in 1998. That same 12 months he released Live, Humorous Tunes. After that, O’Connell has continued to be a dynamic performer and maker and was actually the artistic movie director for the 2006 Xmas Celtic Sojourn concert series in Boston.