Take a moment to meet the artist involved during a hard days work at the studio.

Artist Involved

Lennon, Maurice
Composer,  Co-Producer, Violin, Viola & Back Up Vocals
Maurice is from county Leitrim and has played the violin since the age of eight.  He won "The All Ireland Fiddle Championship"  at seventeen and formed Stockton's Wing with three other all Ireland winners.

Drennan, Anto
Electric Guitar


Anto lives in the Dublin area with his wife Ruth and their  children.  He  played with Phill Collins's band Genisis when he left Moving Hearts. He is currently travelling around the world performing with The Corrs.

Lunny, Donal          

Producer, Bouzouki, Mandolin, Bodhran

Donal is always on the cutting edge of traditional music. His has an amazing ability to be versatile and plays many instruments including guitar, bodhran and bouzouki.  He was a founding member of Planxty, The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts. His current band is Coolfin but he plays with numerous musicians all over the world.  He resides in Dublin and continues to be at the forefront of Irish music. You may contact Donal through the following:

http://www.hummingbirdrecords.com

Eccles, Noel
Percussions

Noel is considered to be one of the finest percussionist in Ireland.  Noel has played with Moving Hearts and Van Morrison.  He is currently travelling around the world with Riverdance. Before departing with Riverdance Noel was the number one choice of percussionist on numerous Irish albums.

Molloy, Tony  Bass guitar




Tony lives in Dublin with his family and is currently playing with The Sharon Shannon Band.  He is also a former member of Stockton's Wing. Tony is a leading session musician and can be found on many albums.

Keane, Sean
Vocals

Sean is a four time winner of Ireland's prestegious "Folk Male Vocalist Of the Year" he hails from beautiful County Galway, where he resides with his wife Virginia, and daughters, Mariles and Jenny.   Sean tours with his band world wide and has numerous albums available. 
                                    

Brett, Seamus
Keyboards & Engineering.

Seamus is a muti all Ireland instrumentalist.  He works in engineering with various groups and has a bachelors degree in music.

Additional musicians involved in the album include:
Boland, Greg  - Guitar
Davies, Helen - Steel Harp
Delaney, James  - Keyboards
Lennon, Brian - Flutes
Martin, Timmy - Mixing Engineer

McElholm, Eamon -
O'Brien, Mick - Pipes
O'Connor, Martin - Accordion
Smith, Mikey - Pipes & Low Flutes

A Special thanks to Finbar Furey.

The very first public appearance of "The Lion of Ireland".