I fondly recall a conversation I had with Tommy Makem who said to me
You should be playing your own countrys music! It is all well and good
to love and play Irish music but you have a tradition and a music of
your own. I have in my own way, been able to combine a love of Irish
music with a love of Bluegrass and Americana music which has taken me
from the Irish Alps of upstate New York to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln
Center, as well as pubs, theaters and festivals throughout the United
States, Canada, Ireland and Scotland including such diverse venues as
the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival and
Milwaukee Irish Festival. I am lucky and proud that such names as: The
Kingston Trio, Bob Shane, North Sea Gas ,The Furey Brothers, Seamus
Kennedy and many others have seen fit to record songs I have written
.That they do is always a joy and a wonder and inspires me to keep
writing and working at my craft every day. Kevin McKrell
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