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	Irish Showbands Home Page
		With apologies to those bands that never considered themselves a part of the "showband scene," we feel this is the only unique term that aptly describes the industry which flourished in Ireland for over forty years.
		Prior to the showbands, most "bands" in Ireland in the early 50's were similar to the "big bands" of the 1940's or orchestras.
		Names like the The Royal Showband featuring Brendan Bowyer, The Miami featuring Dickie Rock, and The Capitol Showband featuring Butch Moore took the country by storm and at it's peak, it is estimated that 700 to 800 showbands toured Ireland continuously (we currently list over 850 on our showband page).
	www.irish-showbands.com (1380 words)

	Limerick.com - Brendan O'Loughlin launches new CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He reached his teenage years during the high point of the Irish showband era.
		He joined the showband circuit and played with a string of popular Irish showbands and excelled on vocals, bass and rhythm guitars.
		The songs tell of Brendan's personal voyage from Irish showband "head" to Phoenix, Arizona and all points between.
	www.limerick.com /news/archive/04/jan30_05.html (420 words)

	PR Christmas Ball
		The Irish Cultural Centre of New England is a 501 (C) (3) non-profit organization that celebrates the cultural, educational, literary, social and athletic pursuits of the Irish community in New England.
		Their selfless dedication to the Irish Cultural Centre is witnessed at every event that takes place there, from the annual festival and athletic matches to the monthly mass and many cultural activities.
		When the Irish Cultural Centre was established, Sean was on the first Board of Directors in 1987, and was instrumental in bringing the Centre together with the GAA to form a beneficial partnership for both groups.
	www.irishculture.org /PR_ChristmasBall_07.html (829 words)

	Irish Connections - A Magazine For The Irish Worldwide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hundreds of Irish entertainers and fans arrived at the funeral mass to pay tribute to a man and an era that had a remarkable impact on their lives.
		The contribution that Moore and all the great showband celebrities made to the Irish music industry and social culture is gradually gaining the recognition it deserves.
		It was a perspiration drenched night at a country cross roads under the canvas of a five pole marquee, dancing to the unique sound of an Irish showband." In his book on the showband era, journalist Vincent Power writes: "It was a multi million pound business that flourished from nothing.
	www.irishconnectionsmag.com /archives/v2i3/butch-moore.htm (1193 words)

	Carlton Showband
		With the show's demise, the group again toured extensively in Canada, appearing in small communities as well as larger centres until it reduced its itinerary in 1987.
		The Showband's early repertoire of traditional Irish material was eventually augmented by songs in country and country-gospel styles.
		Feeney, Grew, McManus, and White remained with the Showband when it recorded a 25th-anniversary album for its own CSB label in 1988, at which time the group also included longtime members Gregory Donaghey (vocals) and Roddy Lee (drums, vocals).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000616 (296 words)

	Irish Music, irish, music, band profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Originally from Limerick in Ireland, Brendan started his career as a teenager playing bass guitar and providing vocals for several Irish showbands, including Gerry and the Ohio from Galway, The Express Showband from Dublin, as well as, Tommy Drennan's All Star Band, The Ambassador 7 Showband, and the Parkway Orchestra, all based in Limerick.
		Irish Bands List.com was set up to promote Irish Music to the world.
		Irish Bands List.com has been trying to expose Irish Music to the world since early 2004.
	www.irishbandslist.com /bandprofiles_moreinfo.asp?ID=524 (371 words)

	Encyclopedia: Index
		Irish Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defensive Measures
		Irish Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
		Irish Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
	encyclopedie-en.snyke.com /ndx/page_526.html (42 words)

	Excite France - Irish > Celtic > Ethnicity > Society (Répertoire)
		Dedicated to the Irish outside of Ireland, including news, articles on leisure, coverage of job vacancies in Ireland and abroad, and community activities.
		Irish blessings and toasts, as well as curses, proverbs, and quotations.
		Irish chat and forums, including topics such as history, culture, and recipes.
	www.excite.fr /directory/Society/Ethnicity/Celtic/Irish (641 words)

	Manchester Irish Festival 2001 - Live Music
		Details: This live band are all students at Salford University and have quickly established themselves as one of the finest live Irish acts in the Northwest.
		Details: Six bands that have battled their way through the 3 heats will be competing for prizes worth £2000 in the final of a competition that has become a festival highlight over the years.
		Irish dancers at this event will be from the Lally School of Dancing, many of whom are internationally recognised.
	www.manchesteririshfestival.co.uk /2001/live_music.html (686 words)

	Band Photos
		Apart from a few who enjoy near mythical status (such as the Royal Showband and a handful of others), most bands came together, played for a few years and then either reinvented themselves, changed their name, or just disappeared, their members either returning to civilian life, or scattering to two or three new bands.
		The rise of Irish folk began in the 60's with bands like The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem and The Dubliners, but in the early 70's, a new Irish folk/trad style took the world by storm in the wake of Planxty, Clannad, the Bothy Band and others that pioneered a "new" Irish sound.
		The history of the "showband era" in Ireland reflects the development of Irish artistic and creative endeavors during the last half of the 20th century.
	www.irish-showbands.com /bands.htm (1094 words)

	Irish Showbands Home Page
		The term "Irish showband" generally refers to a particular type of
		Irish Showbands like the Clipper Carlton, the Dixies, the Royal, and hundreds more traveled the length and breadth of Ireland playing to packed houses every night.
		s the turbulent 60's gave way to the swinging seventies, Irish showbands began changing, specializing in pop or country and the original showbands were forced to adapt to the changes.
	www.irish-showbands.com /index.html (1380 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Ireland Online: Resources
		As a teenager, he enjoyed the Irish showband era as the lead singer and bass and rhythm guitar player of popular Irish bands.
		Though she has been involved in music all of her life, it was not until about ten years ago that Bruner found her passion in the Celtic harp.
		Enjoying Irish music by touring the globe, this duo has teamed up to present the traditional music and song of Ireland.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /irish/learn/resources/music.html (735 words)

	ian gallagher
		Brendan Boyer and the Royal Showband defined the music of a generation in the swinging sixties in Ireland with ‘The Hucklebuck’ — in dancehalls all over the country they were wriggling like snakes and waddling like ducks to one of the biggest dance tunes of the decade.
		Together with the Royal Showband Brendan played all over Ireland and the UK, not surprisingly they had a string of chart hits with songs like ‘Kiss Me Quick, No More and Bless You but it was The Hucklebuck that made Brendan Boyer a household name.
		Irish music fans in the 60s which was unparalleled until the screams of
	www.iangallagher.com /stars1.htm (1482 words)

	Sligo Weekender: The Irish showband era is gone but not forgotten as the legends live on
		Since our profile of the website, thousands of you have been to visit it, but more importantly, a handful of you have added to it, providing Gerry with more photographs, more stories, more band names and line-ups and today the website is almost 50 per cent bigger than it was.
		Another new part of the Irish showbands website is the forum, where you can recall your own showband memories and dancehall days and share in the memories of other contributors.
		A lot of Irish men and women who moved to the UK in the ’60s and ’70s recalled the dancehalls and showband scene in Ireland with great fondness too.
	www.sligoweekender.ie /news/story.asp?j=26050 (1004 words)

	Irish Music at Irish Thymes: A Scrapbook
		The CCE Boston Music School was founded for the express purpose of preserving and cultivating the rich cultural treasure that is traditional Irish music, by providing the opportunity for students at all ages and levels to develop their skills under expert instructors.
		Irish music samples of traditional Irish music of the musicians on the 2006 Irish Music Cruise.
		Irish and Celtic music concerts are often performed at other local venues, such as the Me and Thee Coffeehouse in Marblehead.
	www.irishthymes.com /irishmusic.html (1360 words)

	Irish Radio Hour with Kathleen Dewan O'Neill
		The Irish Radio Hour is on every Sunday on AM 690 from 1:30 - 3:00pm.
		Occasionally, we have guests in the studio (mainly local musicians and representatives from various Irish organizations).
		This past week we heard from 3 local artist, one singer who will be in concert in Detroit soon, and some internationally known entertainers including Noel Henry's Irish Showband, the Fureys, the Wolfetones, John McDermott, Phil Coulter, and the Rankin Family (for our Nova Scotian listeners).
	detroitirish.org /radio/index.html (308 words)

	Irish Post: Prayer service held for lost showband stars
		Among those who paid tribute to the band were 1970 Eurovision Song Contest winner and former MEP Dana Rosemary Scallon and their former frontman Irish showband legend Dickie Rock.
		The Miami Showband were one of the Ireland's most popular live acts in the 1970s and were returning from performing at a dance in Co. Down when their minibus was flagged down by men dressed in army uniforms on the road to Newry.
		The band were told to line up in a ditch while UVF gunmen posing as Ulster Defence Regiment members tried to plant a bomb inside the minibus - which they hoped would explode later on as the musicians headed home to Dublin.
	www.irishpost.co.uk /news/story.asp?j=2964 (379 words)

	Irish Show Bands - World Cultures European
		There ought to be a catchy name to define and capture the essence of the period in Irish music that stretched from roughly the early 1970s until the mid 1980s.
		Geldoff) I suggest that all these Irish super groups owe some part of their fame and fortune to the tireless work of the showbands, pop groups, country acts, managers, promoters, musicians and singers that drove the length and breadth of Ireland in cold mini vans and Ford Transits from 1950 through 1990.
		He started the website Irish Show Bands to pay tribute to the thousands of musicians that played the ballrooms and dance halls of Ireland between 1950 and 1990.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /AMusic/ShowBands.html (1960 words)

	Irish news, waterford news, current events, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Younger readers are probably bored to tears listening to their parents talking about the 60s and the showband years in this country.
		But I was fascinated by a poll last week which sought to determine the Top 100 Irish showband and beat-group records of the 60s.
		The showband era limped into the mid 70s and there were a lot of good records released in those years but they were excluded from the poll which was restricted to 60s releases only.
	www.munster-express.ie /050513/opinion1.htm (1023 words)

	Free Irish Music Downloads: 03/2005
		Dempsey's Lot is a traditional irish music band for irish nights, ceilidhs, folk clubs and weddings.
		Their repertoire mainly comprises well-known Irish folk songs to get the audience singing and lively jigs and reels to set the toes tapping.
		Queen's Gambit is an Oklahoma-based Celtic band specializing in Irish and Scottish traditional music, with a side order of English Folk, dance, and Renaissance music for entertainment at any function.
	www.freeirishmusic.com /2005_03_01_archive.shtml (1792 words)

	Zildjian.com - en-US
		In that time I have played with practically every Irish artist (excluding bands of course) with an international profile either in recordings or live work.
		At 21 I was fully professional in an Irish showband and finished a degree in Sociology and Politics in the back of the band wagon.
		By 1988 I had had enough of all that and was persuaded by Dave Earley(SADE, VM) to go freelance I paid even more dues and made no money for 3 years (1991 a grand total of Â£3385 for the year).
	www.zildjian.com /EN-US/artists/artistDetail.ad2?artistID=1641&genreID=7,9 (451 words)

	Irish Echo Online - News
		The foundation, which is behind the soon to be unveiled Famine memorial in the county, said in a release that the aim of the awards was to foster a study of Irish history and relate this to current events.
		During the mid-1960s, Moore, a native of Dublin, rose to the top of the Irish Showband scene while fronting the Capitol Showband.
		A vigil will be held outside the British Consulate in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday, May 5, to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of hunger striker Bobby Sands and the deaths of nine other hunger strikers in the days that followed.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=9072 (723 words)

	Showbands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Brendan cut his teeth as a teenage musician during the heyday of the Irish Showband scene and it wouldn't be long before he joined their ranks.
		When the Irish showbands would come across to play, the Orchestra would play the first two hours of the night and the showband would play the last two.
		Brendan had developed his bass "chops" playing every night in London and when five members of The Jim Farley Showband decided to go their own way, they knew he was the man to complete the new Express Showband.
	www.users.qwest.net /~brendan44/showbands.htm (1196 words)

	North Wildwood Irish Festival
		Wildwood, NJ - One of the biggest Irish festivals in the country will be held Sept. 23 to 26, 2004 in North Wildwood as the Cape May County Ancient Order of Hibernians presents its 13th annual Irish Fall Festival.
		The yearly celebration of Irish heritage is expected to draw as many as a quarter of a million people to the resort of the Wildwoods for the festival.
		Tickets are $20 and available at the door or at The Irish Corner, 209 Olde New Jersey Ave., in the heart of the festival area.
	www.capemaytimes.com /wildwood/irish-festival.htm (538 words)

	Noel Henry's Irish Showband
		The Noel Henry Irish Showband has been performing now for over three decades and is recognized nationally and internationally as a premier showband.
		In 1995, the face of the band changed somewhat when the founder, Noel Henry, passed on at the young age of 46, and the band was taken over by his brother Tommie.
		Noel Henry's Irish Showband - Half Crown (Comedy) - CD
	www.irishrecords.com /noelhenirsho.html (194 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Since his debut Single "On My Mind" in 1991 which was a nationwide hit, Pat has entertained audiences both in Ireland and the U.K. with his unique style of Country Music.
		He has many successful recordings to his credit including the award winning album "On My Mind" which is a compilation of quality country songs and ballads all delivered in Pat's unique 'easy listening style'.
		The combination of Pat Hayes and Sea Breeze is ensures the audience get the best in Irish Country Music coupled with the Irish Showband Classics of the 60s and 70s which is in itself the recipe for a 'good night out' and a show not to be missed.
	www.irishbandslive.co.uk /profiles/bands/seabreeze/seabreeze.htm (283 words)

	Irish Abroad - Irish American News
		A special prayer service in Dublin saw a packed congregation commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Miami Showband massacre — when Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen shot dead three members of the group.
		Among those who paid tribute to the band were 1970 Euro-vision Song Contest winner and former MEP Dana Rosemary Scallon and their former front-man Irish showband legend Dickie Rock.
		The band were told to line up in a ditch while UVF gunmen posing as Ulster Defence Regiment members tried to plant a bomb inside the minibus — which they hoped would explode later on as the musicians headed home to Dublin.
	www.irishabroad.com /news/irishpost/news/prayerserviceheld-050803.asp (359 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: irish: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Irish Favorites by Various Artists (Audio CD - 2004)
		When Irish Eyes Are Smiling by Rose Marie (Audio CD - 2003)
		Irish Pub Songs by Various Artists (Audio CD - 2002)
	www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&tag=545-21&pg=46&rh=i:music,k:irish&page=1 (315 words)

	John Feeney - The Other Irish Tenor - World Cultures European
		These days, all good stories seem to be told in 'flashback' so let's go right back to the beginning: John Feeney was born on August 9th, 1903 in Swinford, Co. Mayo and, as with many young men of his generation, he was forced to emigrate at the age of sixteen.
		Michael's family has four decades of experience in the Irish music business and they have earned an unrivalled reputation for quality and service; they have long been regarded as the leading independent source for all areas of Irish music.
		He will be covering the Irish music scene and will bring us the latest news, trends and whatever else he thinks our readers will enjoy.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /AMusic/JohnFeeney.html (1570 words)

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