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Brendan Doherty

About Me

Brendan Doherty is a singer-songwriter from County Waterford, currently living in South Kilkenny, Ireland. He has gigged in various bands since the age of 16, and for the last 12 years has played professionally on the local, national and international scene.Brendan plays a one-man accoustic-based covers gig around the South East (Brendan Martin), as well as in a five piece corporate/fumctions band 'Carouse'.But Brendan's real passion is songwritig, recording and performing original material. He released his first single, 'Heaven' in 1997, which was produced by Chris O'Brien (Clannad, Aslan) and charted in the top 30. Since then he has set up his own commercial recording studio, has been involved in and performed at a number of songwriting clubs and forums.His new album, due to be release early 2009, Has been recorded in Nashville with producer Thomm Jutz. It feature's new self-pened material, as well as some co-written songs with writers such as Marian Bradfield, Danny Sheerin and Finnoula Kearney.
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Member Since: 7/9/2007
Band Website: on the way... watch this space!
Band Members: Brendan Doherty, vocals and accoustic guitar
Influences: James Taylor, Steve Earl, Shawn Colvin, Guy Clarke, Tim O'Brien.... and Bluegrass music generally!
Sounds Like: Accoutic, chilled out, folky vibe
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New album

Hi , I have just returned home after an amazing trip to music city ( Nashville ).Producer Thomm Jutz and I have recorded an  album containing 12 of my songs with some of the best musicians around. The...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:47:00 GMT