The Henry Girls profile picture

The Henry Girls

New album available now at www.thehenrygirls.com

About Me

Joleen, Lorna and Karen are three sisters from a little village in Donegal, way way up north, called Malin...our dad is a Malin man, born and bred and our mum is a Glaswegian...she came on holidays with her pals in the the 60s...then we came along...six girls in total..growing up in the countryside, right next to a piano teacher, it was no surprise that we all started to play music from a very early age...also our mother was invlolved in the running of the church choir so we all learned to sing in harmony from the word go...so basically back in those days ( i mean pre-internet and good car radios) we sang and sang and sang...you can imagine the trips to Scotland....

In 2002, we formed the henry girls and its been really great since...lots of adventures..we've done lots of lovely gigs (home and abroad), met lots of lovely people, and recorded a couple of albums..so far so good....
MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/20/2007
Band Website: thehenrygirls.com
Band Members: Karen - fiddle, vocals, piano.
Lorna - vocals, accordion, tin whistle, piano, thunder drum, chimes
Joleen - harp, vocals, piano, mandolin

We are often joined on stage and/or on recordings by these wonderful people...
Laurence Doherty - drums, percussion
Stephen Cleary - electric bass
Stephen Murray - acoustic guitar
Matt Jennings - sax
Seamus Devenny - fiddle, drums
Michael Gallinagh - acoustic guitar
Ted Ponsonby - hammond
Rohan Armstrong - double bass
Brian Mellon - percussion

Influences: Kris Delmhorst, Be Good Tanyas, Emmylou Harris, Tom Waits, The Indigo Girls, Flook, Altan, Karen Tweed, Liz Carroll, Laoise Kelly, Rufus Wainwright, Kila, Gemma Hayes, Dixie Chicks, Cara Dillon, The Andrews Sisters, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, The Roche Sisters, Joni Mitchell, Folk & Traditional Music From Ireland & The Rest of The World!
Sounds Like: Happy Christmas 2007 to Everyone and all the best in 2008!!! Hope you enjoy our version of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" which we are singing here for the "Balcony TV" Christmas Eve Special

Here we are singing three part harmony backing vocals with Reggae musician, Natty Wailer in McGrorys, Culdaff (keep an eye out for Karen's bump, she was 9 months pregnant at the time!!)...

Here we are performing recently in An Grianan theatre, Letterkenny, singing a song called "the Ol' Cook Pot" with Rohan Armstrong on double bass...

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Ballyilffin Lodge Session

We have started a new session in the bar of the Ballyliffin Lodge (Co.Donegal) from 8 until 10.30pm every sunday night. We had the first one there on sunday past and it went really well. In Joleens ab...
Posted by The Henry Girls on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:30:00 PST

Evening Herald Review by Sarah McQuaid, January 17th 2008

The Henry GirlsMorning Rush(Independent release) Morning Rush is the second album by the deceptively named Henry Girls, who are in fact the three McLaughlin sisters from Malin, Co. Donegal: Lorna on v...
Posted by The Henry Girls on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:30:00 PST

Gerry Anderson Christmas Tour 2007

When Radio Ulster presenter Gerry Anderson called us up earlier this year to ask us to go on his "Christmas Tour", we didnt quite know what to expect...images of getting dressed up as Elves and duetin...
Posted by The Henry Girls on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:23:00 PST

Review of "Morning Rush" - December 2007

"Morning Rush"(The Henry Girls) by Seamus Devenny, Inishowen Independent December 2007It has been a serious pleasure to be able to rant about several new releases this year already, but Morning Rush, ...
Posted by The Henry Girls on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:47:00 PST

Carndonagh Jazz Festival...

A jazz festival in rural donegal ...who would have thunk it..our wee Joleen is currently "flat out"organising the first Carndonagh Jazz Festival along with one of our other sister's, Mo. Its all going...
Posted by The Henry Girls on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:47:00 PST