After seeing Abba win Eurovision in 1974, Mark Walsh wanted to be involved in music. After various schoolboy bands he kicked off his touring and recording with guitar based pop band The Forget Me Nots – Sony UK.
As a songwriter and musician Mark has co-written songs for Disney with composer Dean Valentine and had an Irish Top 5 hit from the RTE TV Show “The Hit” when Mundy covered his song Jigsaw Man.
“I love being in a room with people and sharing the writing experience regardless of style or genre” says Mark.
Jigsaw Man
Jacqui is a Singer/Songwriter from West Donegal, Ireland. She ranges across folk, jazz and rock to musical theatre. Jacqui released a folk E.P. ‘A Fairer Love’ in 2004 and her debut album, ‘A New Dawn’ in 2011. This marked her crossover into Americana and New Country Music.
Jacqui’s second album, ‘Love And Other Things’ released in 2014, was produced by Irish musician and producer, Manus Lunny, and brings a slight folk and celtic flavour to her style of MOR / New Country music. Her third album, ‘Shine’ was released in October of 2015.
Owen Thomas was born on a hot summer’s day in mid ’80’s Dublin, Ireland. Music featured heavily in his childhood as Owen’s father, Tommy, was a music fanatic who introduced him to many different musical genres ranging from pop, to rock and roll, to traditional Irish and to classical music. After years of travelling and no job on the horizon Owen turned his music passion into a career and began writing songs and playing gigs around the bustling Dublin music circuit.
Nigel Connell was born into a musical family where his skills as a drummer and singer developed. He has since performed on a variety of Irelands finest TV shows such as Live at Three, Up for the Match, Kenny Live, Nationwide, The Late Late Show, Phil Coulter and The Bibi Baskin Show and is known for his stunning harmony vocals on albums such as Liam Lawton’s Triple Platinum EMI Album ‘Another World’ and Liam’s second album “TIME”.
Nigel joined World Class Irish Country Folk Singer Daniel O Donnell’s band as his drummer and backing vocalist. touring North America, UK, and Australia and is currently working on a new solo album.
Down By The Mountain
Amanda Agnew has been writing and performing her original songs since 2011 and has just released her first single “Think of you”. Amanda was one of four people chosen to showcase at the famous Bluebird cafe in Nashville and appeared alongside Benita Hill (hit songwriter for Garth Brooks) and Lee Roy Parnel.
Think Of You
Ben Travis picked up his dad’s guitar when he was twelve has played in multiple bands. Ben is a writer, guitarist, and vocalist who can morph between country, pop, and rock genres.
Des Wade was born in Dublin and has lived in Australia for nearly 40 years. He spent some years travelling from Queensland to Tasmania where he worked professionally under the name Dez Perrado, The Human Jukebox.
Des is an award-winning songwriter and lyricist and member of SCALA (South Australia’s internationally recognised Songwriters, Composers & Lyricists Association). The US group Locklin Road recorded his song Wings of Angels and took it to the top of the CDBaby folk charts.
He reckons he’s a bit of a dreamer, with both feet planted firmly in the clouds – who started out with nothing and still has most of it.
Big Wheel
In 1997 Marc came to international prominence when he represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest and came a credible second with ‘Mysterious Woman’. Marc’s first album was released shortly after & he toured extensively throughout Europe and appeared on all the top TV shows in the UK. Four more albums followed. ‘Meet Me Half Way’, ‘Once in your Life’ and ‘The Promise’
His fifth studio album, ‘Now & Then’. returns Marc to his first love, American country music! The album includes covers from Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Restless Heart, Clint Black, Colin Raye & two brand new originals. One of the tracks from the album is the duet Marc has recorded with Mary Duff.
Songwriting has always been a huge part of Marc’s career. All of his albums to date have included his own material. He has co-written with many top songwriters…. Brian Kennedy, Charlie McGettigan, Jimmy MacCarthy, Darren Holden, Ben Mills, Derek Ryan, Grammy Nominee Billy Yates & Daniel O’Donnell
After seeing Abba win Eurovision in 1974, Mark Walsh wanted to be involved in music. After various schoolboy bands he kicked off his touring and recording with guitar based pop band The Forget Me Nots – Sony UK.
