NW Irish Music Community Reeling from Loss: "Ta, Finn!"
August 23, 2007
Finn is a native of Coole, County Westmeath in Ireland's midlands. He first played American country music before moving on to rock and roll. It wasn't until the mid-eighties, while living in Japan, that he began to play traditional Irish music. Finn moved to Seattle in 1989, where he met the rest of the Gaels, now Crumac and joined the group as their singer and guitar player extraordinaire. His diverse musical background and inventive energy lends a highly distinctive quality to the music of Crumac.
Finn is also in demand as as a Voice Over artist and actor. His first film, Lost on the B-Side is nearing release. Lots of information on the film at http://www.lostonthebside.com/
He performed in Samuel Beckett's "Rough for Theatre 1" in Tokyo in 2006. http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyo/658/stage.asp
He has produced several decidedly not Irish albums with Kirk Marvin http://home.comcast.net/~kirkm05/
Samples of that music can be found in the Kirk Marvin Folder at http://tinyurl.com/lmf5y