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Simon Bradley has worked with O’Carolan’s Ceili Band in Manchester with Michael McGoldrick, Ciaran Tourish (Altan), Kevin Doherty and Iain MacLeod (Shooglenifty). In 1997 he joined Asturian supergroup Llan de Cubel and has since toured the world headlining festivals in South America, the US and all over Europe. Simon has recorded three albums with Llan de Cubel including a live recording for the Agosto es Bogota festival in Columbia with Irish stella band Dervish in 1999.
Luke Plumb is a multi-instrumentalist with a varied and eclectic musical outlook. He began formal music training during his teens, studying classical piano and violin but with the purchase of a mandolin he left this all behind. One year later at the 1998 National Folk Festival he was awarded the Declan Affley Memorial Award as part of the short-lived duo Cooldrinagh. Following a Port Fairy festival appearance the next year with Cooldrinagh he was recruited by fiddle player Tim Whelan and began working with the experimental band Senan’s Haggart. Their debut self-titled CD was recorded late in 1999 and received international critical acclaim. It was their album that came to the attention of Scottish super group Shooglenifty, who enrolled Luke to tour Australia with them in 2002. After the success of the tour he joined the band and currently lives in Edinburgh. It was during one of the famed sessions in Sandy Bells Bar that Luke and Simon Bradley made their musical connection. |
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