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Paul Brock Band

Button accordion and melodeon player Paul Brock is a multiple All-Ireland champion from Athlone, County Westmeath now residing in Ennis, County Clare. Brocks solo album, Mo Charidin (Gael-Linn), was described by the Rough Guide to Irish Music as a masterpiece of accordion playing. In Paul Brock Band he is joined by leading Irish musicians Denis Carey (piano) and Dave Curley (multi-instrumentalist / singer / dancer) and Shane Ferrell on banjo. Brock co-founded Brock McGuire Band in 2000 with fiddle player Manus McGuire. The band has gone on to record a number of highly acclaimed albums including Green Grass Blue Grass, a collaboration with 14-time GRAMMY Award winner Ricky Skaggs celebrating the connection between Appalachian and Irish music. In 2014, the band performed a fully-scored program of their music with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra in Jackson, Mississippi. As a soloist, Brock has toured extensively internationally. He has performed with leading musicians and has been a special guest artist on a number of occasions with acclaimed Irish band The Chieftains. In 1989, Brock and McGuire co-founded Moving Cloud, with whom he recorded two award winning albums for Green Linnet Records. Brocks 2006 collaboration with Enda Scahill, Humdinger (Compass Records), was voted Irish Music Album of the Year by The Irish Times and Instrumental Album of the Year by The Irish American News.Brocks many album credits include A Tribute to Joe Cooley (Gael-Linn) with fiddler Frankie Gavin.

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