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About Me

NINE-8THS IRISH, based in Sacramento, California, is made up of four unique musicians with extremely diverse backgrounds. Bo was a jazz trumpet player, Kathy is well-known bluegrass banjo, dobro and guitar player, Chris is an amazing bodhran player, and Linda is a former California State Fiddling Champion and Celtic rock fiddler. Together they present music that is "IRISH AND A WEE BIT MORE"

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Member Since: 3/27/2007
Band Website: nine8thsirish.com
Band Members: Nine-8ths Irish's first CD, entitled "West of Ireland", is now available!! The album was released through the FGM Records label, and is now available through CDBaby !!!! It can also be purchased through FGM Records Mercantile

NINE-8THS IRISH ARE:

Chris Dunlap , the voice of Nine-8ths Irish, has only played the bodhran a couple of years, and found himself to have a fabulous talent, and has no problem being in the spotlight. Linda Relph is a former 4-time California State Fiddling Champion and Celtic Rock fiddler, but now concentrates her talents on a more traditional Irish style. Bo Bowen plays whistles in many different sizes, but in a previous life was a professional trumpet player. Kathy Barwick comes from mainly a bluegrass background, where she is accomplished on dobro, 5-string banjo and guitar, but adds her considerable talents as a guitar player to round out the traditional sound of (and adds a Wee Bit More to) Nine-8ths Irish.
Influences: Solas, Natalie MacMaster, The Bothy Band, John Doyle, Liz Carroll, Matt Molloy, Cherish The Ladies, Lunasa, Kevin Burke, Flook, Albert Alfonso, Mark O'Connor, The Killdares, Mark Stone, Brother, Ed Miller, Waifs & Strays, Pegasus Project, Earl Scruggs, J'Anna Jacoby, Dale Morris, The Chieftains ....to name but a few
Sounds Like: IRISH and a WEE BIT MORE!!
Record Label: FGM Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

N8i at Fox & Goose this Thursday 6/5/08

We're going to be in downtown Sacramento on Thursday night, playing at the Fox & Goose, at 10th & R streets. We'll be trying out some new sets of tunes, and kicking around some old ones as well. We'd ...
Posted by Nine-8ths Irish on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:18:00 PST

WWW.NINE8THSIRISH.COM UP AND RUNNING!!

With much fanfare, we are unveiling our brand-new bouncing baby website!! Check it all out at www.nine8thsirish.com. We’ve got new photos (with more to come later), some music (full tracks you c...
Posted by Nine-8ths Irish on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:35:00 PST

"West of Ireland" now available on CDBaby!!

We are gearing up for our St. Paddy’s Day gigs this entire weekend, and in the process of preparing some more promo, I came across the link to our CD on CDBaby!! We knew it was going to be there...
Posted by Nine-8ths Irish on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST

New website in the works!

Hey all, we are starting work on our new website and will be letting you know more as it happens. We are very excited about it, and are asking our fans and friends to give us some ideas to what you wo...
Posted by Nine-8ths Irish on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:29:00 PST

AWESOME CD Release Party Last Night!!!

Our CD release party was last night at the Fox & Goose here in Sacramento, and we had SUCH a great time!! There were quite a few people (more than we expected, I think), and we sold a few CDs (more th...
Posted by Nine-8ths Irish on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:30:00 PST

Nine-8ths Irish: CD Release Party, Nov. 1st, at Fox & Goose

Nine-8ths Irish is pleased to announce that our first full-length CD, entitled "West of Ireland," will be presented at a CD Release Party on the night of November 1st at their favorite Sacramento pub,...
Posted by Nine-8ths Irish on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:43:00 PST

Had a GREAT time at Grass Valley!!

On Friday morning, our CDs arrived as planned, and we took them and headed up to Grass Valley for the KVMR Celtic Festival. They've added the Friday performances to help promote and feature some of th...
Posted by Nine-8ths Irish on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:52:00 PST

Nine-8ths Irish in the "studio" this weekend!!

We are primed and ready for our first recording, which we'll be working on at Kathy's home studio (with the very important help of her husband, Jon Fox.) We'll be working on getting those tracks recor...
Posted by Nine-8ths Irish on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:11:00 PST

Show at Fox & Goose on Saturday, 11 Aug, 9pm!!

NINE-8ths IRISH are excited about our gig this Saturday at the Fox & Goose...it's our first real weekend gig with amplification and everything, and we're really excited to see who comes out to support...
Posted by Nine-8ths Irish on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:04:00 PST

Good Morning!!

This is our first blog entry for Nine-8ths Irish. We have been spending time getting our MySpace page up and running, editing HTML code, inserting photos, uploading audio tracks, fixing the background...
Posted by Nine-8ths Irish on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:02:00 PST