Jimmy Crowley is an Irish traditional folk singer and musician from fair Cork City in the Republic of Ireland. No-one sounds like Jimmy, and few can match him for the humour, joy, tenderness and sheer storytelling craft which he brings to his repertoire of songs.
Jimmy has been travelling the world as a professional musician since 1977. He has been involved in an ongoing process of ethnography, collecting songs and ballads from Cork and elsewhere. He has also written the play "Red Patriots", which was produced this year to sell-out week in Cork's Triskel Arts Centre.
He has just finish writing his Utopian novel, Hy-Brasil while in tandem, the ethnographical work, Cork Urban Ballads, a body of songs from the oral tradition collected in the "field" by Jimmy since the late sixties, is now very far advanced.
Jimmy holds a degree in Irish and Folklore from University College Cork.
He is a fine self-accompanist on bouzouki and mandola. A former member of the band Stokers Lodge, he has formed magical musical associations with many of Ireland's folk greats such as Micheal O'Domhnaill of the Bothy Band, Joe Burke, Jackie Daly, Donal Lunny and Mick Moloney.