KEVIN CONNEFF PRESENTS THE DUBLIN TRIO

Three Internationally acclaimed touring and recording artists with a shared passion in traditional Irish music led by Kevin Conneff, of The Chieftains, on vocals and bodhrán with Joe McKenna on pipes and Tony Byrne on guitar. Each has an extensive background in live performance and deep love of music which translates to a magical experience for the audience. A celebration of life in all its local colour and a testament to the indomitable spirit of a storyteller who still has plenty to say. Kevin Conneff is probably best known as the bodhrán player and vocalist with The Chieftains since 1976. A Dubliner, he first became interested in traditional Irish music in the 1960’s, when he and some workmates hitched to fleadhanna ceoil all over Ireland, sleeping in hay barns and eating tins of Denny’s stew! In Dublin, he frequented O’Donoghue’s, The Pipers Club, The Clareman’s Association and the weekly session in Church Street. For many years, he and friends ran the prestigious Tradition Club in Slattery’s of Capel Street, where singers and musicians from all over Ireland and the U.K. performed. These included Willie Clancy, Séamus Ennis, Joe Heaney, Treasa Ní Mhiolláin, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Anne Briggs. Apart from touring and recording with The Chieftains, he has performed with Mary Bergin, Tim Edey, Redmond O’Toole, and from Nashville, JeffWhite, Laura Cash and Deanie Richardson Joe McKenna from the Liberties in Dublin studied the pipes in the Pipers Club where he learne