Sharon shannon tour 2024
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SHARON SHANNON
Biography
A River of Music Runs Through Her
PLUS Biography (Courtesy of Daisy Discs, 2005)
Sharon Shannon has a tip for all those people out there who ever went home feeling miserable for having failed to pluck up the courage to ask the object of their desire to dance.
Go to County Clare. Find a ceili and wait for the band to strike up the Haymakers Jig. "Everybody lines up in fours," Shannon explains. "You dance with the person opposite, then you move on to next couple and eventually you get to dance with everyone in the hall. So if you fancy someone, you know you'll get to dance with them sooner or later."
Shannon learned this strategy at the age of fourteen, she says. It comes as something of a surprise to hear her talking about being on the dance floor because the way her music teacher tells it, she was usually too busy playing music to have time to dance to it.
"I used to borrow a horse-box from Sharon's father," says Frank Custy, a musical legend around the Shannon homeland in North Clare. "And every time I phoned the house, this kid was playing the
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Who Is... Sharon Shannon?
Sharon Shannon is primarily known as a gifted button accordion player in traditional Irish music. (She is also a talented fiddler and tin-whistle player!) Her long career began at home in County Clare Ireland, and has since expanded to many areas of the world.
Shannon is known for her adventurous spirit in crossing over from her traditional Irish music roots to other genres, including jazz, rock, classical, hip-hop, country, and Americana.
This program outlines her life in music, from her early days collaborating with the likes of Adam Clayton of U2, and The Waterboys through associations with Jackson Brown, Steve Earle, and the late John Prine.
We also include the full audio for a concert recorded in February 2020 at DeBarras in Clonakilty, West Cork — my home town — and a playlist of 10 songs to provide a broad introduction to her music. I hope you enjoy it.
More information on Sharon and her music at: https://www.patreon.com/sharonshannonmusic/posts
Ray Blackwell
Sharon Shannon: Live at DeBarras
Recorded at DeBarras Folk Club in
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Sharon Shannon
Irish musician (born 1968)
Musical artist
Sharon Shannon (born 8 June 1968) is an Irish musician,[1] best known for her work with the button accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her 1991 debut album, Sharon Shannon, was the best-selling album of traditional Irish music ever released in Ireland.[1] Beginning with Irish folk music, her work demonstrates a wide-ranging number of musical influences.[1] She won the lifetime achievement award at the 2009 Meteor Awards.
Early life
Shannon was born in Ruan, County Clare. At eight years old, she began performing with Disirt Tola, a local band, with which she toured the United States at the age of fourteen.[2] Shannon also worked as a competitive show jumper, but gave it up at the age of sixteen to focus on her music.[2] She similarly abandoned studying at University College Cork.[citation needed]
In the mid-1980s, Shannon studied the accordion with Karen Tweed[3] and the fiddle with Frank Custy, and performed with the
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