The McKrells' Christmas Show

I fondly recall a conversation I had with Tommy Makem who said to me You should be playing your own countrys music! It is all well and good to love and play Irish music but you have a tradition and a music of your own. I have in my own way, been able to combine a love of Irish music with a love of Bluegrass and Americana music which has taken me from the Irish Alps of upstate New York to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, as well as pubs, theaters and festivals throughout the United States, Canada, Ireland and Scotland including such diverse venues as the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival and Milwaukee Irish Festival. I am lucky and proud that such names as: The Kingston Trio, Bob Shane, North Sea Gas ,The Furey Brothers, Seamus Kennedy and many others have seen fit to record songs I have written .That they do is always a joy and a wonder and inspires me to keep writing and working at my craft every day.

Kevin McKrell