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Tim Edey is 28 years old and is regarded by many to be one of the finest melodeon+guitar players of his generation in the Celtic music folk scene worldwide.From Broadstairs in Kent, a coastal town where the sea serves an important role in everyday life and this has influenced Tim’s music a lot.
Tim currently plays in a trio with Brendan Power and Lucy Randall, In Scottish superstar band Session A9 and often plays with Kerry Irish music legend Seamus Begley and the equally legendary Manchester Irish duo Michael McGoldrick+Dezi Donnelly.A mixture of dazzling technical ability, soulful feel, musical charisma and amazing instrumental improvisaton have made Tim a highly in demand session musician both in studio+on stage.
He is a current master of more than ten instruments including; melodoen, accordeon, guitar, banjo, bass, piano, mandolin, whistle, bodhran and bouzouki.
To date Tim has appeared live on the Jools Holland show on the BBC with the Brendan Power trio, toured every country in Europe as melodoen player with German based dance troupe Magic of the dance with world champion dancer Michael Donnellan, has composed a track for Sharon Shannon, Little Bird, which appears on Sharons latest cd ..the Sharon Shannon collection, appears on the new groundbreaking album Wired by Michael McGoldrick, has been resident guitarist on the hugely popular Irish dance show Irish folk ballet company on board Cruising ship m/s Silja Serenade and Silja Europa for two years running in Scandinanvia, has played gigs with; Phil Cuningham, Charlie McKerron, Donald Shaw, Julie Fowlis, John McCusker, Eammon Doorley, Ed Boyd+Flook, Steafan Hannigan, Alan Prosser from The Oyster band, Seamus Cahill and Martin O’Harefrom Danish trad giants Ashplant, played with the Michael McGoldrick trio and Session A9 whom he is a member of, to more than 15,000 people in galicia+on stage with Donal Lunny+Altan, did a Huge Uk tour with Sharon Shannon and the woodchoppers in the year 2000 including the Royal albert hall with Paul Brady, Hothouse flowers and more, and appears on numerous recordings with:
Michael McGoldrick, Frankie Gavin+Rick Epping, Steve Cooney, Lunasa, the Daily Planet, Frankie Gavin, Seamus Begley, Charlie McKerron+Donald Shaw, BBC Scotland, Kate Purcell, Steafan Hannigan, Su Hart from Baka Beyond, Troy MacGillivray, Breda+Cora Smyth and more.
Tim started playing Irish folk music at the age of four on the piano followed by piano accordion at six and whistle. Encouraged by his parents, grandparents, whistle player Fred Ayling with whom Tim and his Dad had a trio when Tim was twelve years old called "Spatter the dew" playing a residency at Salmestone grange in Margate and many other gigs.
Next Tim at fourteen met Dublin born singer+musician Enda Mccabe, and the fiddle+banjo player Rob McGoerge from Kent and it was with these two musicians and often fiddle players Saskia Tomkins and Ramona Egle with whom Tim was a member of the popular Kent band Camine with Andy Renshaw+Zinta Egle. Tim played four nights a week with all over Kent+France at the age of fourteen!. his Mum is from Dublin and very much into the Irish music of her native land and his dad is a fine guitarist+singer that plays lots to this day.
Tim has been influenced by his favourite accordeon/melodoen players Sharon Shannon, Luke Daniels and Seamus Begley since the age of twelve and guitarist and musical genius Steve Cooney from Melbourne has influenced Tim’s guitar playing to no end since meeting Steve on Easter friday 1995 in London when Steve played with Seamus Begley at the Swan in Stockwell. These three Irish music legends it is safe to say have been Tim’s biggest inspiration as well as his parents and Django Reinhart and De Dannan founder Frankie Gavin.
Tim was also brought up listening in his parents kitchen and on family boating holidays, to the legendary French jazz musicians Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli who are still regarded as the best Jazz guitar and violin players of all time. Tim loves improvising and has often been described as an Irish jazzer!
