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Sean MacNamara Eamon Coyne & Peggy Peakin (Liverpool)
Liverpool Ceili Band 1960s
1980s - Sean (middle), Peggy (left)
Eamon, Kit Hodge, Sean
Sean MacNamara was an original member of the famed Liverpool Ceili Band, a band that had four fiddle players in it's front line including Eamon Coyne, Charlie Lennon and their original leader Kit Hodge. During the sixties they won the 'All Ireland' ceili band competition two years running and they visited America and appeared on the television show 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium'. Peggy Peakin is Kit's sister and she has also been playing fiddle in Liverpool for almost half a century but didn't join the band until she became their regular piano player, replacing Peggy Atkins.
There is still a vibrant and continuing Irish musical tradition in Liverpool and these two musicians have influenced and inspired it.
To read Sean McNamara's extended article on the Liverpool Ceili Band.: Click Here
To read Fred McComack's interview with Sean McNamara on Musical Traditions web site.: Click Here
Sean McNamara Eamon Coyne and Peggy Peakin can be heard on: VT125DR
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