Biography
Pat O'Connor and Eoghan O'Sullivan first met each other
at the session in Bohan's bar in Feakle during the Festival.
They quickly felt a musical connection.
| PAT O'CONNOR comes from the heart of County Clare, Ennis and has been playing music all his life. As a child he was in the school band and played piano-accordion. He played harmonica, banjo, mandolin and bouzouki before finally settling on the fiddle when he was 30. Pat has been greatly influenced by the older musicians such as Paddy Canny, Martin Rochford, PJ Hayes and Francie Donnellan who lived in East Clare area. He has also listened to Joe Cooley, Paddy Fahy, Joe Ryan and a lot of pipe music. He has released two solo albums, The Green Mountain(2000) and The Humours of Derrybeha(2004), futuring his unhurried brand of fiddle playing. To hear Pat play is to experience the intangible and elusive "lonesome touch" of County Clare fiddling. Pat has lived in Feakle, East Clare since1993. He also does fiddle repairs and works in Custy's Music Shop in Ennis. |
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EOGHAN O'SULLIVAN grew up in a musical family in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He was taught to play press and draw style accordion by his father. He played whistle, flute, accordion, fiddle and harmonica in his childhood years. His earliest influences were the older musicians; mostly fiddle players living in the Mitchelstown area. Initially it was the flute which attracted him most, but the during the eighties the accordion became his dominant instrument. In his later teens, he became intoxicated by the accordion styles of the great press and draw players, notably Joe Cooley, Jackie Daly and Tony McMahon. He changed his whole technique in order to achieve a punchier and more consistent rhythm. The flute playing traditions of Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon occupied another sizable compartment of his brain this time. He has recorded two albums with Gerry Harrington, Sceal Eile(1993) and The Smoky Chimney(1996). Eoghan lives and teaches music in Mitchelstown. |