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Saoirse

About Me

SAOIRSE

(Pronounced: "seer-shey"); Irish Gaelic for FREEDOM.

Our first CD, "Celtic Eclectic" is available here:

Please visit our website at celticeclectic.com .
Saoirse combines celtic, world beat, and acapella styles for an eclectic mix of the old and the new. Our variety of instumentation, appealing arrangements, and vocal harmony create a mix that has pleased our audiences over the past four years, and encouraged us to produce our first CD, appropriately named "Celtic Eclectic" It's release really felt like a birth to us! We hope you will enjoy it!

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Member Since: 15/05/2007
Band Website: celticeclectic.com
Band Members:
Io Berg: Lead Female Vocal, Percussion
Dan McDermott: Lead Male Vocal, Mandolin, Guitar, Hammered Dulcimer, Irish Banjo, Concertina, Fiddle
Harlow Pinson: Fiddle, Uilleann Pipes, Octave Mandolin, English Concertina, Low D Whistle, Pennywhistle, Bodrhan, Backup Vocals
John Brinduse: Rhythm Guitar, Backup Vocals
Lisa Nichols: Flute, Pennywhistle, Backup Vocals
David Mascerenas, Bohhran, Percussion, Thoughfulness
Glenn Maxwell: Bodrhan, Double Snare Field Drum, Bones, Backup Vocals (on sabatical in Kosovo)
Bonnie Schmader: Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo, Backup Vocals (Former band member)
Tom MacDougal: Lead Male Vocal, Electric Bass (Former band member)
Also: Claire Brown: Tingshas,Backup Vocals
Influences: Dervish, Solas, Kila, Old Blind Dogs, Lunasa, Roger Landes, "Carp Camp" at Winfield KS (Walnut Valley Festival)
Sounds Like:We borrow tunes from others, but we really sound like ourselves!
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Proud of our IO!!!!!!!!!!

Right after Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, our own Io (lead female vocalist, SAOIRSE), known at the Albuquerque VA Hospital Psych Unit as Laura Berg RN MSN, wrote an impassioned letter to the city...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:39:00 GMT

More Growth

We got to squeeze in a gig for the long Saint Patrick’s weekend, O’Niell’s Pub, a bastion of Celtic Music & culture (they have Scots there too) in Albuquerque.  We played Su...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:33:00 GMT

REBIRTH

Our regular local fans already know that our founder, Tom (Heady) MacDougall, and one of our flute players, Bonnie Schmader, left the band after our CD Release Event last May.  Bonnie, with a new...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:21:00 GMT

State Fair Story

My good friend Jimmy Abraham says "You either get a good gig, or you get a good STORY!" Well, the State Fair gig was definitely in the STORY category, but we made it into a good gig, too, even though ...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:32:00 GMT

Albuquerque Folk Festival

This Saturday, June 16th (the day before Father's Day), SAOIRSE will be playing againat the Albuquerque Folk Festival.  It will be our third year in a row.  We will be on the "Second Stage" ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:22:00 GMT

Getting our CD

Our CD, "Celtic Eclectic" is available on our website, www.celticeclectic.com,via PayPal, or you can get it on CD Baby, www.cdbaby.com, if you want options other than just PayPal......(I cannot use Pa...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:14:00 GMT

Our Name

"SAOIRSE"  means "Freedom" in Gaelic (now actually called "Irish" by the folks who speak it!). We pronounce it:  "Sear-shuh", but of course, in Irish, there's a little bit more inflection to...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:47:00 GMT