Enda Scahill is an Irish

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player from Corofin, County Galway. He is a four-time All-Ireland Champion and has performed with The Fureys, Frankie Gavin and The Chieftains. He is an ex-member of The Brock McGuire Band. In 2006 he released the album ''Humdinger'' with Paul Brock which was awarded Irish Music Album of the Year by '' The Irish Times'' and was released by Compass Records in Nashville, Tennessee. Scahill is the founder of the band

We Banjo 3 We Banjo 3 was a band from Galway, Ireland that played a blend of Irish traditional music, traditional Irish, old time, and bluegrass music they called Celtgrass. The band was composed of two sets of brothers, Enda Scahill and Fergal Scahill and ...

whose members include Martin Howley, David Howley and his brother Fergal Scahill. Earle Hitchner, music writer for '' The Wall Street Journal'', describes We Banjo 3's playing as a "freshness and finesse bordering on the magical" and LiveIreland proclaiming them "the hottest group in Irish music."

Discography

* ''Humdinger''(2006) * ''Brock McGuire Band'' * ''Pick It Up''(2000) * ''Roots of the Banjo Tree'' (2012) * ''Gather the Good'' (2014) * ''Live in Galway'' (2015) * ''String Theory'' (2016)

References

Galway Arts Festival

The Irish Music Magazine Charts

External links

Official Website

We Banjo 3 (official website)
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