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Younger brother of Scottish fiddler Johnny Cunningham, Phil Cunningham has combined a mastery of Celtic music traditions along with a melodically rich design of composition. An associate of Silly Wizard from 1976 to 1988, Cunningham, who started accordion lessons at age three, helped to spark a pastime in the original …

Gordon Jones is really a baritone, most widely known as an associate from the world-class Hilliard Outfit. Therefore he offers divided his energies between your Middle ages and Renaissance vocal masterworks — such as for example those of Ockeghem, Gesualdo, Frye, Perotin, Dufay, Lassus, Palestrina, Victoria, and Brumel — as …

The musical traditions of Ireland and Scotland have already been extended with the singing and tenor banjo playing of Andy M. Stewart. A previous person in Silly Wizard, Stewart provides continuing his musical exploration through many single albums and recordings with such important Celtic players as Manus Lunny, Gerry O’Beirne, …

Generally considered the world’s best performers of traditional and contemporary Scottish music — along with justification. Silly Wizard’s music reaches once traveling and sensitive, effective and poignant, sometimes hypnotic, often funny, with delicate group interplay and virtuoso-level musicianship, especially from brothers Phil (accordion, keyboards, whistles, acoustic guitar, vocals) and Johnny …