Éamonn Coyne is a tenor banjo player from Ireland who now lives in Edinburgh. He plays traditional music of various countries such as Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, Cape Breton, and America among others. He also plays mandolin, guitar, tenor guitar and national steel tenor guitar. He learnt his playing from a variety of sources and is a member of the younger generation of Irish musicians. In the music scene he has performed and recorded with a vast array of people including Siobhán and Tommy Peoples, The Wrigley Sisters (cds 'Hunterland' and 'Mither o' the Sea'), Eileen Ivers (Ex Riverdance), Sharon Shannon, Jonny Hardie (Old Blind Dogs) and Gavin Marwick (cd 'The Blue Lamp'), Russell's House (cd 'Russell's House'), and Scottish international band Salsa Celtica (cd 'El Agua de la Vida').
Kris Drever is a multi instrumentalist from Scotland's Orkney Islands. Also a fine Scots singer, he has been in great demand since moving to Edinburgh in 1995. Kris was a founder-member of the highly acclaimed band Fine Friday with whom he recorded two CDs. Recently he has been a member of the Kate Rusby Band and the trio Lau where he shares the limelight with fiddler Aidan O'Rourke and accordionist Martin Green. Kris's first solo CD Black Water made the BBC Radio 2 'Top Twenty' albums of 2006. In 2007 he won the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards |
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