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2. John Carty (musician) - Wikipedia

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   John Carty is an Irish musician. Considered among Ireland’s best traditional musicians, Carty plays fiddle, tenor banjo, tenor guitar and occasionally the flute. [1] He is very interested in the North Connacht traditional music style. Carty was born in London and now lives in Boyle, County Roscommon.

3. Qristina & Quinn Bachand - Wikipedia

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   Qristina plays fiddle and sings; Quinn plays acoustic guitar, Irish tenor banjo, clawhammer banjo, bodhran, fiddle, electric guitar and sings. Since forming in 2007, they have become important names in the international Celtic music scene, [1] performing across Canada, the US and in Europe at clubs, concert halls and music festivals.

4. Cathal Hayden - Wikipedia

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   Cathal Sean Hayden is a Northern Irish musician, acclaimed for his skilled style of Irish fiddle and tenor (four-stringed) banjo.He was born on 13 July 1963, in the village of the Rock, County Tyrone [1] (outside Pomeroy), an area immersed in traditional music.

5. Gerry O'Connor (banjo player) - Wikipedia

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   Gerry O'Connor (born 21 July 1960 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland) is a traditional tenor banjo player. As Earl Hitchener (music critic for the Wall Street Journal) said, Gerry O'Connor can be considered at the moment "the single best four string banjoist in the history of Irish Music". [1] He also plays mandolin, fiddle, guitar and tenor ...

6. Barney McKenna - Wikipedia

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   Bernard Noël "Banjo Barney" McKenna (16 December 1939 – 5 April 2012 [1]) was an Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners. He played the tenor banjo , violin, mandolin , and melodeon .

7. Charlie Piggott - Wikipedia

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   Charlie Piggott (born 14 July 1948) is an Irish traditional musician, best known as a founding member of De Dannan and has toured extensively in Europe, Canada, and the US. He grew up playing music in County Cork , where his first instrument was the button accordion .

8. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   This facilitated tenor banjo chord shapes on the bottom four strings and plectrum banjo chord shapes on the top four strings. Contemporary New York jazz-guitarist Marty Grosz uses this tuning. All-fifths tuning has been approximated by the so-called " New Standard Tuning " (NST) of King Crimson 's Robert Fripp , in which NST replaces all-fifths ...

9. Kieran Hanrahan - Wikipedia

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   Kieran Hanrahan [1] (born 1957) is an Irish radio host and musician. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Born in Ennis , County Clare , he began playing traditional Irish music on the tenor banjo at the age of fourteen. Over the years, Hanrahan has helped to found a number of traditional bands, including Stockton's Wing , Inchiquin, and the Temple-house Ceili Band.