Liz Doherty | ru
Donegal fiddler Liz Doherty was brought up in Buncrana, Inishowen, in Ireland's most northerly peninsula. Having been introduced to the fiddle by local maestro Dinny Mc Laughlin, she moved to Cork to study with Micheal O Suilleabhain, graduating from the Music Department of University College Cork in 1991. She was awarded a PhD in 1996 from the University of Limerick for her research on Cape Breton with a dissertation entitled The Paradox of the Periphery - Evolution of Cape Breton Fiddle Tradition c 1929-1995. Liz has lectured in traditional music in the Music Department of University College, Cork for the...
John Doherty was one of a large family of travelers from Co Donegal. He is widely regarded as one of the best fiddle players ever to come from Ireland. .
Sally Doherty Quartet is a latin jazz band fronted by Sally Doherty (vocals) and Piero Tucci (piano and accordion). Piero has been described as “a jazzer's dream… unpretentiously skillful”. They are joined by Colin Elliot (double bass) and Phil Johnson (drums).
Sally instigated this project after years of listening to bossa nova and samba from Brazil as well as music from Cuba and Mexico and after being inspired by such jazz singers as Chet Baker, Nina Simone and Billy Holiday and Brazilian singers João Gilberto, Elis Regina, Maria Creuza, Rosa Passos and Eliane Elias. She approaches Brazilian bossa nova and...
Sally Doherty is a unique artist. After her many releases with her band The Sumacs she has now formed her new project ‘Electric Butterfly’ which is a collaboration with producer Colin Elliot (long-time producer and arranger with Richard Hawley). ‘Electric Butterfly’ has been released as a digital download on iTunes and is a truly beautiful piece of work. She also worked with Richard Hawley, singing on his album ‘Lady’s Bridge’.
She has been involved with quite a few different artists of different styles including Italian band Planet Funk with whom she wrote some songs for two of their albums.
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