John Kearney

Song Solo

(Contact John.Kearney@kearneyweb.demon.co.uk) John grew up with a variety of musical influences, being the fourth of five children he was exposed to tastes ranging from Cliff Richard, Smokey Robinson and the Beatles, to Jim Croce, James Taylor. As a teenager he joined a punk group called “Romeos Butcher”, but, (thankfully!) through his brothers influence gradually learned to appreciate folk music to the extent of helping to run a Folk Club in Cork in Heaphys Bar (now The Lobby) on Union Quay. On his travels, John has met Steve Earle, and Christy Moore and proudly boasts having lived down the road from Bryan Adams, and having had guitar lessons from Declan Sinnot (although he says you’d never tell!). He performs an eclectic mix of songs, some self composed some written via telephone and Internet with his good friends and former colleagues in Romeos Butcher Joe Tracey and Edward Connolly. He also does many songs from his hometown in Cork and has been known to do an occasional song which may be a little unexpected at a folk club (He thinks Petula Clark’s Downtown IS a folk song!). A regular at the local folk sessions for five years, and a featured guest at last years festival!