Seamus Egan Project

Seamus Egan is the kind of trailblazer that breaks the chains of stereotyping. Rather than fitting neatly into a musical genre, Egan has helped define the sound of Irish music today, inspiring multiple generations of musicians along the way. Egan founded the Irish-American powerhouse band Solas in 1996. Then, in 2018 with Solas on hiatus, Egan began touring as a solo performer, bringing along friends and musical guests, and making music as Seamus Egan Project, that points towards the origins of Solas in the 1990s. In 2020, he released Early Bright, hailed as “A perfect balance of energetic and wistful, modern and traditional, Early Bright finds Egan weaving all his disparate musical strands into an emotionally powerful whole.” – Acoustic Guitar

As a multi-instrumentalist, he’s put his mark on the sound of the Irish flute, tenor banjo, guitar, mandolin, tin whistle, and low whistle, among others. As a composer, he was behind the soundtrack for the award-winning film The Brothers McMullen, co-wrote Sarah McLachlan’s breakout hit, “I Will Remember You,” and has scored numerous documentaries and indie films since. His music is blissfully tricky to describe. For every jaunty passage that has the feel of what most folks think Irish music would or should sound like (albeit a notch more subdued), there are as many delicate, pensive, in-between moments that set your mind reflecting before the tempo picks up again and you’re back to swaying your head, tapping your toes and enjoying yourself thoroughly. (Rootsworld) Layered, lovely and evocative, this stuff may not get anyone jigging and reeling at the corner pub, but it gives a softer spin to familiar Irish sounds and will be appreciated by anyone receptive to the alluring, magical qualities of this timeless music.

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