Member Since: 1/31/2007
Band Website: www.traonach.com
Band Members: Mark Bickford (accordion, banjo, concertina, guitar, kora) played sessions in Madison, Wisconsin and Austin, Texas before coming to Ithaca in 1986. He studied the Kora with Mamadou Diabate, and travels regularly to study and play in Ireland with Noel Hill and others.......Harry Lawless (bouzoukis) can be found playing away in Cork pubs, sessions in East Durham, New York, or at Contra Dances here in Ithaca. He is a regular attendee at Zoukfest where he studies bouzouki with Alec Finn and Roger Landes.......Matt Malone (whistle, concertina) formed his first working band with his brothers Mike and Dan, his sister Patricia, and Seattle fiddler Kelly Mulford in 1975. After living in Ennistymon, County Clare, London and the borders of Scotland, he returned to America and spent the '80s in various bands in Seattle and Vancouver, including "The Culloden Relief League."......Ed McGowan (fiddle) grew up in the rich musical life of New York in the '40s and '50s, and studied with James Morrison, Paddy Killoran and John McGrath. Ed gave up playing fiddle at the age of fifteen, when he entered Cathedral College Seminary. He came back to the instrument thirty years later, playing with "The Midnight Court" and "Dalriata" before joining the Ithaca session.......Scott Whitham (bodhran, fiddle) was seduced away from old-time American fiddle music in the '80s by playing in the Boston and New York Irish sessions, and studied fiddle with John Caulfield. Sitting next to the likes of Johnny (Ringo) McDonagh and Tommy Hayes, he picked up the bodhran around 1986.
Sounds Like:Opening for Karan Casey at the State Theatre, March 17, 2007State Theatre, with the Grady Girls dancing
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie