The five members of The Rapparees are all university graduates from
County Antrim and Belfast. The boys have played support to and won great
praise from Shane MacGowan, Cara Dillon and The Proclaimers.
They have weekly folk music gigs in The Hatfield House and The Hunting Lodge
in Belfast and have built up a large following in Ireland, England, Scotland
and France.
Apart from the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival, they are already booked
to play the Tyneside Festival, the Belfast St. Patrick's Festival, the
Skudeneshavn Festival in Norway, the Celtic Fusion Festival in Castlewellan,
Ireland and the St. Loup, Guingamp, Festival in Brittany, France.
The Rapparees are on a mission to keep Irish folk music "live and alive" and
their musicianship coupled with their boundless energy makes their
performances unforgettable experiences. They are currently writing,
arranging and recording material for their new album due out soon.
You can visit The Rapparees on
www.therapparees.com
(includes video segments as well as audio material from their first album).
They are also on
www.myspace.com/therapparees and on You Tube
The Rapparees are looking forward to bringing their quality Irish folk music
as well as their infectious energy and pure enjoyment to the appreciative
and encouraging audiences they know so well from Portsoy in 2007.
It's an honour and a privilege for The Rapparees to be invited back to
headline the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival in June 2008.
Find out more about this exciting Irish band at:
http://www.therapparees.net
www.myspace.com/therapparees
