Roots Music From The Welsh Frontier
From an acoustic duo to a five piece rocking electric band - a band for every occasion
A selection of short clips from one of The Whiskey River Trio's live gigs over St Patrick's weekend, 2024,
plus a couple from The Whiskey River Duo from late 2023 at a harmonica event in Birmingham UK
plus a couple from The Whiskey River Duo from late 2023 at a harmonica event in Birmingham UK
The duo perform a couple of back to back numbers at The Bell in Redbrook, Monmouthshire on Sunday 7th April 2024
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Whiskey River play Americana - Cajun, Zydeco, Folk, Good Country, Blues and a spattering of Celtic Music. With many years experience of performing, these guys deliver the goods whether in acoustic or full electric mode. Small venues and budgets can be catered for by the two founder members Martin Blake & Aidan Sheehan [click on each of their names for more details] as an acoustic duo, whereas larger venues and pockets could go for an acoustic trio/quartet or move into the realms of bass, drums and electric instrumentation with the 5 piece.
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"We've had many great evenings at the Redcatch Club, but I felt that The Whiskey River Duo were perhaps the best ever. Superb musicianship and singing, excellent variety, stylistically innovative and not least, great fun. High expectations were met in full" |
Whiskey River Electric 5 Piece Perform "Iko Iko" & "Li'l Liza Jane" at "Lundi Gras", Saulieu, France, 2012
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From the album "Hot Sauce", Whiskey River's take on a brace of Leadbelly songs about cotton....
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Whiskey River [full 6 piece] perform the classic Leiber & Stoller song "Love Potion Number Nine" from their 2011 album "Hot Sauce"
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Check out loads more audio and video on the Sound & Vision page!
Meet the Band!
Aidan Sheehan
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Martin Blake
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Alan Cooper
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Pedro Brown
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Tommy Mills
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Ted Bunting
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The Quartet at the Gower Bluegrass Festival, Sept 2022
The full rocking electric line up at Tenby Blues Festival Nov 2019
Personnel:
Aidan Sheehan - Vocals, Accordion, Mandolin, Harmonica, Penny Whistle, Percussion, Kitchen Sink
Martin Blake - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar & Banjo [see Martin's website]
Alan Cooper - Fiddle
Tommy Mills - Electric & Double Bass
Ted Bunting - Saxophone
Pedro Brown - Drums
Aidan Sheehan - Vocals, Accordion, Mandolin, Harmonica, Penny Whistle, Percussion, Kitchen Sink
Martin Blake - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar & Banjo [see Martin's website]
Alan Cooper - Fiddle
Tommy Mills - Electric & Double Bass
Ted Bunting - Saxophone
Pedro Brown - Drums