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	About The Band Liz Coleman Fiddle, mandolin and mandola liz@nabacmusic.com Liz juggles a hectic cocktail of PhD level physics, Nábac rehearsals, gigs, sessions, a vibrant love life and an equally colourful Galway city social life. On the fiddle, she can play a tune in any key, she can accompany you on the piano if you feel like a song, she takes easily to the tin whistle and can pick out chords on the guitar as easily as she solves her mathematical equations. Give her fiddle playing a good ear and you can begin to appreciate her character and relationship to Irish music. For all her troubles Liz has played professionally at many festivals - Ennis, Liverpool, Lorient, Indianapolis to name but a few. She has also done time in Ballyfermot College where she received a diploma in professional traditional music performance and met up with the rest of Nábac.
	Ciaran O'Dongaile Uileann pipes, flute and whistles ciaran@nabacmusic.com Ciaran is from Derry city and is sick of people being so terribly hilarious by calling his hometown ‘ Londonderry '. He can speak Irish and British fluently and has similar British / Irish dual citizenship. He plays the whistle and flute like it was an extension of his brain - a brain that acts as the central processing unit for the heavenly touch he has on any tune he plays. Ciaran knows more tunes than anyone I know. Thanks to the guardian angel that helps him safely retrieve his pipes from any festival, in any part of the world, at any time and under any level of inebriation; Ciaran continues to play uilleann pipes with Nábac. We met Ciaran in Donegal when he lived with the great piper Martin Crossin. Amid the rain, wind, alcohol and salty air of Dún na nGall he managed to achieve a diploma in traditional Irish music. The musical adventure now continues in Galway city and wherever the Nábac road leads. Warning: If you ever meet Ciaran please do not give him whiskey.
	James Ryan Mandola, guitar and banjo james@nabacmusic.com James was born amid the rabbits, hares, foxes and hunting hounds of Saggart, County Dublin . He caught, kilt, skinned and ate his first rabbit at the age of nine. One month later he took up the banjo and a month after that he grew to a height of 6ft 4ins. Nine years later he left the parish of Saggart to join the traditional music course ten miles down the boreen in Ballyfermot. With vital spiritual guidance from the great mandolin player, Paul Kelly, he consumed thousands of tunes and also learned how to play mandola and guitar. Constantly teaching, playing gigs, sessions and visiting festivals, James' life is music all the way and the fortunate rabbits of Saggart are free to repopulate the hills.
	Noriana Kennedy Vocals, whistles and driving noriana@nabacmusic.com After lengthy board meetings, the management of Nábac Inc. decided it would be in our commercial interest to have the band fronted by a good-looking female. Noriana represents the band with a natural, unaffected voice, far from the bellyless high pitch pretty cailín style. At the age of six she kicked her Dad in the shins when her horse didn't come in at a trip to Fairyhouse racecourse! Noriana learned to play the whistle in Lucan amongst a small community of local musicians but nowadays is mad for finding good songs and singing at every opportunity or when the tune players allow it. She has a bit of a weakness for American roots music which was confirmed after a recent musical adventure in Charlottesville and New York . After a year of being the only female in the band Noriana is particularly delighted to see Liz join the crew. Noriana is an environmental scientist on the weekdays and is often seen singing or lilting whilst wading in the rivers and lakes of the west of Ireland defending the planet from pollution. She loves food, songs and sailors.
	Paddy Kennedy Bodhrán, cajon, flute, other percussive toys paddy@nabacmusic.com Although he may look like a Mexican bandit Paddy is in fact from Lucan, Co. Dublin . The black hair is from his Filipino mother. His father who played the banjo in his famous arthritic east Limerick style, made him play the button accordion at the age of eleven but he vehemently gave it up a year later. Amidst a love for punk rock, metal, rap, jazz and funk, a love of traditional music returned a couple of years later. As a result, he left a lucrative and very respectable job in order to follow the yellow brick road all the way to Ballyfermot Traditional Irish music College . There he learned the flute, explored the subtleties of backing Irish music with a bodhrán and found that the world of traditional Irish music stretches across the globe.