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Craobh Rua (The Kennedy Center)

Craobh Rua

Craobh Rua takes a refreshing, clean, unpretentious but uncommonly skilled run at some of the greatest music in the world. The band consists of four impeccable musicians who mix traditional instruments such as uilleann pipes, tin whistle, fiddle and bodhran with banjo, mandolin, guitar, bouzouki and great vocals. Brian Connolly (banjo) was taught the mandolin by his grandfather and started playing the banjo after hearing Barney McKenna of the Dubliners. He played with several groups while in school and began playing at sessions around Belfast, developing an elegant (not a word usually associated with the banjo) style of playing. He founded the original Craobh Rua in the mid-eighties and remains the driving force behind the band today.

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Craobh Rua 4/5/11: Craobh Rua

The Belfast-based band is one of the finest ambassadors of Irish traditional music.

Craobh Rua

The Belfast-based band is one of the finest ambassadors of Irish traditional music.
Craobh Rua 7/6/07: Craobh Rua

Craobh Rua is a name that is well known in Celtic history from the Red Branch Knights of Ulster. This Belfast-based quartet mixes traditional instruments such as uilleann pipes, tin whistle, fiddle, and bodhran with banjo, mandolin, guitar, bouzouki, and vocals.

Craobh Rua

Craobh Rua is a name that is well known in Celtic history from the Red Branch Knights of Ulster. This Belfast-based quartet mixes traditional instruments such as uilleann pipes, tin whistle, fiddle, and bodhran with banjo, mandolin, guitar, bouzouki, and vocals.
Craobh Rua 9/28/99: Craobh Rua

Craobh Rua performs traditional and original arrangements influenced by the Irish folk revival of the 1960s and 1970s.

Craobh Rua

Craobh Rua performs traditional and original arrangements influenced by the Irish folk revival of the 1960s and 1970s.

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