MP3 Gan Bua - Live at Martyrs´

A progressive Celtic band that plays with unmistakable energy and infectious rhythm. The passion and exuberance for the music comes through with each note they play. They seamlessly blend traditional and contemporary tunes and songs.

11 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Traditional Folk, WORLD: Celtic



Details:
Jackie Moran

Originally hailing from Thurles Co. Tipperary, Mr. Moran has been firmly rooted in the Chicago Irish music scene since he was 14. A founding member of such popular performance groups as The Drovers, Gan Bua, Comas, Wilding, The Otters and The Trinity Irish Dance Company, Mr. Moran has also performed live as well as recorded with some of the top Irish musicians in the world, including Liz Carroll, John Williams, John Doyle, Martin Hayes, Paddy Keenan, Dennis Cahill, Kevin Burke and Larry Nugent, among many others. Mr. Moran's percussive stylings have also found their way into a number of major motion pictures, including Backdraft, Blink, Traveller and The Road to Perdition. Since 2001, Mr. Moran and his wife Amy have been running Anam Mor, an Irish dance and music school in the Chicagoland area.

Christy Bain

One of Gan Bua's co-founders, and the band's hingepin, is ace fiddler Christy Bain. Much of Gan Bua's innovation can be contributed to Christy's varied musical background: traditional Irish, Welsh and Scottish, bluegrass, classical.
A Chicago native, Christy began playing violin at age five. Growing up in a musical family, he was encouraged to experiment and expand his musical influences. He became multi-instrumental, though the fiddle would remain his primary instrument. By 14 he'd realized his true muse lie in Celtic music.
While attending university, Christy spent an exchange year at the University of Wales, Bangor. During that time he toured with Welsh triple harpist Robin Huw Bowen (solo; Crasdant) in Germany, headlined at a North Wales fiddle festival (Ffidlan), performed with top Welsh fiddlers Stephen Rees (Ar Log; Crasdant) and Huw Roberts (4 yn y Bar) at The Mid Wales Folk Festival, and appeared on Welsh TV (S4C) with Welsh trad group Crasdant. Stateside, Christy has taught and performed at several Welsh cultural courses.
An avid session musician, Christy frequently traveled to Ireland to trade tunes and hone his skills. A mainstay of the local Irish session in Bangor, he also helped to initiate Bangor's first regular Welsh session. Now an integral part of Chicago's Irish music scene, he can often be found leading or sitting in on numerous sessions throughout the Chicago area.
Prior to co-founding Gan Bua with Tim and Jackie, Christy was a member of The Drovers for two years, and was invited to tour with Gaelic Storm. He has performed locally with a number of prominent Irish musicians, including Dennis Cahill (Hayes & Cahill) and Pat Broaders (bohola). When not performing with Gan Bua, he regularly plays with another Chicago Irish band, Anish, and the Trinity Irish Dance Company.
Besides recording with Gan Bua, Christy has guested on James Conway's Mouthbox CD (2002, Mouthbox Productions), and is currently planning a solo album.

Brian Hart

Brían Ó hAirtâs (Brian Hart) anomalous voice stands as a testament to the power of tradition. His ability to share the mindâs eye of an older generation of singers has afforded him great acclaim at his young age. He became the youngest and first ever American to win the coveted Sgiath Uí Dhálaigh shield at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Listowel, Co. Kerry in 2002âadding his name to the shieldâs long list of noted singers including Joe Heaney, Frank Harte and Paddy Berry.
His dedication to traditional song and more specifically to the sean-nós style of singing encouraged him to learn the Irish language to an uncanny fluency and along the way introduced him to the close-knit singing community of the Conamara Gaeltacht where Irish is still the commonly spoken language.
Brían has performed extensively in the United States at the Milwaukee Irish Festival, Chicago Celtic Festival, Sean-nós Milwaukee and the Traditional Singers Club of the Twin Cities and in Ireland at Lá na nAmhrán, Cruinniu na mBád, the Ennis Trad Festival and Cuairt na mBàrd. He has also had the distinction of being a singer to the President of Ireland, Dr. Mary McAleese. His recordings have been featured on many radio programsâ in Ireland including Céilí House on RTÉ and Lán aâ Mhála on RnG as well as on various NPR programsâ in the States.
In 2003 Brían established Sean-nós Milwaukee , the first festival in North America to focus on the sean-nós singing tradition. Its success has merited the production of a compilation album entitled Sean-nós Cois Locha consisting of festival recordings from 2003-2005. Produced with the help of Cló Iar-Chonnachta publishing company, this album showcases some of Americaâs finest proponents of the tradition, both native Irish as well as American-born.
He is likewise a noted instrumentalist of accordion, concertina and whistle and plays with Milwaukee-based group Cé, and more recently with Chicago-based Gan Bua, both of which Irish Music Magazine has lauded for their distinct talent and innovation in the vein of traditional music.

Brian Miller

Rambles magazine praises Brian Miller as a guitarist âwho really understands the music [and doesnât] just play the chordsâ. Also an accomplished flute player, Miller became interested in playing Irish music as a high-schooler up in Bemidji, Minnesota. He has lived in Saint Paul since 1998, often sneaking away to his other adopted home of Cork, Ireland. Miller began playing the flute in 2000 while studying Irish music in Cork where his first teachers were Padraig Kelleher and Conal OâGrada. As a founding member of duo 5 Mile Chase (with fiddler Django Amerson) and The Doon Ceili Band (with County Offaly accordion player Paddy OâBrien) he has performed extensively throughout the Midwest. He also performs with singer Aoife Clancy and flute player Laurence Nugent on occasion.

Sean Gavin

Sean Gavin's ornate and driving style on the Flute, Whistle and Uilleann Pipes reflects his lifelong immersion in Irish music. He is already an accomplished performer having shared the stage with many legendary musicians including Cape Breton pianist Barbara MacDonald-Magone, Seamus Connolly, Liz Carroll, Brian Conway and Cathy Ryan.
Born in Detroit to Clare fiddler Mick Gavin (recently inducted into the Irish music hall of fame) Sean dabbled with various instruments until at the age of ten Scariff flautist Leo MacNamara came to stay with the Gavins for six months. Sean quickly grasped the whistle and shortly thereafter the flute. Along with his fathers fiddle student Jeremy Kittle, Sean took off to the Fleadh in Chicago to take second place in the duet competition as well as the flute and whistle competitions. He hasn't missed competing in the All-Ireland Fleadh since. In 1999 his Groupai Ceol won second place in Enniscorthy. Upon their return to the States the group was featured on NPR, The Wheatland Folk Festival, Blissfest, the Frog Island Folk Festival, Detroit's Concert of Colors and many other concerts and festivals.
Sean then studied pipes with the late Uilleann piper Al Purcell. Who was a student of Leo Rowsome.
Sean also performs with his father Mick Gavin and his brother (multi instrumentalist) Michael Gavin. They are regularly featured at the concert venue the Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan.