After 20 years together, Kila is still one of Ireland’s most innovative and exciting bands, and, being at the forefront of rock, traditional and world music in Ireland, they’ve become renowned for their live performances. Kila’s also created its own distinct style of contemporary Irish music and earned a reputation as the “musician’s band” for strong, percussive singing, gorgeous melodies and daring harmonies. Bono of U2 is clearly a fan, “Somehow you get the feeling Kila lit the fuse for the big bang.”
Since its birth in 1996, Solas has been loudly proclaimed as the most popular, influential and exciting Celtic band ever to emerge from the United States. Critical praise is also mounting for the band that’s taken the lineage of Irish music and infused it with elements of folk, country, jazz-inspired improvisations and global rhythms. According to the The Los Angeles Times, “Solas offers a compellingly original, strikingly contemporary view of traditional Celtic sounds.” Anchored by founding members Seamus Egan and Winifred Horan – Two of the most respected and imitated musicians in acoustic music – Solas fills each show with what The New York Times called, “…unbridled vitality.”
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