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Featuring Live Ireland’s “Best Irish Vocalist of 2011 and 2012”, Canadian singer, Norah Rendell heads up a powerful song-based trio with top-notch multi-instrumentalists, Brian Miller and Randy Gosa. Inspired by Celtic traditions from Newfoundland to Minnesota, Norah Rendell and the Lost Forty unearth heirloom songs with Irish-American and Canadian roots… and perform them with passion and nuance.
Norah and Brian’s debut duo album, Wait There Pretty One, earned Norah a nomination for Canadian Traditional Singer of the Year and since they have become known as two of the best young interpreters of traditional song this side of the Atlantic. Recently, their music has been inspired by the old Irish songs and singers that worked and travelled in the northwoods of Canada and the bordering states.
The Two Tap Trio will touch your heart and then get you up dancing! High energy traditional Irish music – jigs, reels, polkas and songs – with a trio of outstanding musicians including Live Ireland’s “Best Vocalist of the Year” Norah Rendell (The Outside Track) on song and flute, internationally acclaimed guitarist Brian Miller (Bua, Atlantic Steps) and Nathan Gourley on the fiddle. Hire TTT for your festival or event to give it a distinctively authentic Irish feel!
Norah is a skilled music educator with a passion for sharing her music with young and old and beginners to advanced musicians. Norah loves to coach ensembles or bands, and will travel to teach workshops, group classes or private lessons.
The Máirtín de Cógáin Project Concert is a group lead by Cork Renaissance man Máirtín de Cógáin, who is an entertainer of unending talent. A crowned All-Ireland Storytelling Champion twice over, a noted singer, a dancer and a heart-beating bodhrán (Irish drum) player, and actor, Máirtín has gathered a stable of the finest Irish-Yank musicians […]