Pat MacSwyney - ProfilesArchive

About Me

WILDLY SELF INDULGENT 3rd PERSON BIO: Pat MacSwyney grew up in suburban Chicago and Los Angeles, listening to his motherâ€™s Dubliners and Bing Crosby records. He has been performing Irish, Balkan, Ottoman, & various interpretations of traditional music for 25 years. Pat has recorded both solo and with the bands; The BAKSHEESH BOYS, STINKEYE, BUZZWORLD and the ethno-thrash band BLACK CLOTHES & POINTY SHOES. Recently, Pat played Kaval opposite vocalist Azam Ali in the dramatic closing scene of the Warner Bros movie "300", which premeired in theatres in March, 2007 with an original score by Tyler Bates. Look for him grossly mispelled on the 300 soundtrack as Pat McSwyny..... nice @*%ing job there Porky Pig!!! ************************************************************ ** Pat has a degree in Anthropology from U.C. Santa Barbara and has subsequently never held gainful employment outside of the music and food service industries. He is also author of several books on traditional music; most recently "KAVAL: Balkan & Anatolian Traditional Music", published in 2006. Pat lives in north Los Angeles county and plays music for dancing & drinking at weddings, wakes, sunnets and the occasional Hollywood blockbluster. Pat plays a wide variety of ethnic/folk string instruments; Cittern, Mandolin, Octave Mandolin, Dulcimer, Tambura, Bouzouki, Baglama, Saz, etc. (and) wind instruments; Kaval, Ney, Pipcorn, Harmonica, Trumpet, Frula & Tin Whistle. ************************************************************ ** Available for Studio Recording & Live Performance: [email protected]: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=841204508

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Member Since: 6/30/2007
Band Website: hometown.aol.com/macswyney/MacSwyney.html
Band Members: Free Agent for the first time in years....most recently, I've played with The Baksheesh Boys, StinkEye, The Milkmaids of Swing, Orkestra Banitsa, Veselba Izvorno Ensemble, The Crusty Seamen, The Cope Band, Yoruk Frenzy, The Sacco & Vanzetti Memorial Rebetika Ensemble, Martha Mavroidi, The Chalgitones, Orkestar Chooshki & most recently; The Spaghetti Eastern Surf Catastrophe, Nevenka & The Mehanatones.
Influences: Tom Waits, Joe Strummer, Ferus Mustafov, The Pogues, X, Markos Vamvakaris, The Raconteurs, The Clash, Liam O'Flynn, Marc Ribot, Thelonious Monk, Klezmatics, Otis Redding, Dervish, Sonia Tamar Seeman, Flaco Jimenez, T-Rex, Talip Ozkan, Neyzen Tevfik, Angele Dimovski, John Coltrane, Brian Ogihara, Dan Reeder, Angela Rodel Hristova, Murat Aydemir, Emmylou Harris, Bill Lanphier, Dexter Gordon, Esma Redzepova, Ashik Veysel, Christos Govetas, Louis Armstrong, Tzvetanka Varimezova, Ivan Varimezov, Johnny Cash, Bill Cope, Osman Aktas, Robin Williamson, Dave Alvin, Gillian Welch, Derya Turkan, Edessa, Los Lobos, Taraf de Haidouks, Linda Kodaira, Ben Webster, Beatles, Brenna MacCrimmon, Charlie Parker, Ali Farke Toure, Bob Dylan, Dolores Keane, David Bilides, Arif Sag, George Lockwood, Etta James, Lydia Mendoza, Dead Kennedys, Jerry Summers, Kate Rusby, Django Reinhart, Bill Marks, Les Negress Vertes, Martha Mavroidi, Lou Reed, The Band, Nina Simone, Altan, Ethan James, Vladimir Vissotsky, Tom Schneider, Oscar Telles, Sharon Shannon, La Bottine Souriante, Goce Dimovski, Neil Young, Selim Sesler, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, John Doherty, Sinan Celik, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Firewater, Salih Bilgin, Iggy Pop, Kocani Orkestra, Willie Nelson, Willie Clancy, Woody Guthrie, Conjunto Bernal, Old Crow Medicine Show, Ashkabad, Haig Manoukian, Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, Tom Waits...
Sounds Like: Might sound something like Punk, Irish Traditional, Ska, Rebetika, Ottoman Turkish, Psychobilly, Norteno, Macedonian Wedding Music, Surf, Vintage French Musette, R&B, Tango, Chalgia, Banda, West African, Lounge, Klezmer, Industrial, Manouche "Gypsy" Jazz, Motown, "Sparsely Produced" Country &/or "Grossly Over-Produced" Glam Rock.
Record Label: Warner Bros(300 Soundtrack) + 6 self-produced CDs
Type of Label: None