Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Eight of the film's original songs that were retained for the Broadway adaptation. [1] [3] Menken, who had both scored and written the film's songs alongside lyricist Ashman, returned to the project to write six new songs for the musical; [4] those were co-written by Tim Rice, replacing Ashman who had died in 1991, before the film was released. [5]
He grew up in a very musical family, the son of the late fiddle player Ben Lennon and nephew of composer, fiddle player and pianist Charlie Lennon. [1] [2] He won the senior All-Ireland fiddle title aged 17. [3] Professionally, he first came to prominence in the popular 1980's band Stockton's Wing for whom he was fiddle player and a composer of ...
A bluegrass band is a group of musicians who play acoustic stringed instruments, typically some combination of guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, dobro and upright bass, to perform bluegrass music. [1] Each band on this list either has published sources — such as a news reports, magazine articles, or books — verifying it is a performing or ...
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Henderson comes from a musical family, with his sisters Megan (of Breabach) [4] and Ingrid and brother Allan (formerly of Blazin' Fiddles) [5] in particular being musicians of renown. He started learning the fiddle at the age of five under the tutelage of Aonghas Grant Snr. [6] Besides fiddle, Ewen regularly performs on bagpipe, penny whistle and
Stockton's Wing are an Irish band formed in 1977 by four All-Ireland champion musicians; Paul Roche on flute/whistle, Maurice Lennon on fiddle, Tommy Hayes on bodhran, and Kieran Hanrahan on banjo/mandolin, along with Tony Callinan on guitar and vocals.
There they first heard Texas-style fiddling, and afterwards met Joey and Sherry McKenzie, national fiddle champions and founders of the Bob Wills Fiddle Festival & Contest in Greenville, Texas. Soon after, the sisters became students of the McKenzies, [ 2 ] and the Quebe family moved to Burleson, Texas in Tarrant County . [ 1 ]
Terrapin Creek, a group within the Cockman Family Grandkids have started a new band which you can expect to hear them by the end of 2018. The band consists of Arwen Cockman on the fiddle, who writes many of their songs and is a main singer. Lorien on the bass and dobro and is also the lead singer. She also writes most of their songs.