The Paul McKenna Band

The Paul McKenna Band have just returned from their first trip to the USA. The band attended the annual Folk Alliance International which was held in Memphis Tennessee.

We had three performances during the event with our main showcase being held on the Saturday night. We really had a brilliant time, and it seemed that the crowd did too.

The experience was enhanced by all of the great people we met and the bands we got to see. Already we’re booked to go back over to the USA at the end of June and we really can’t wait. Hopefully we’ll get to catch up with some of the friends we made.

Check out the Folk Alliance page: www.folkalliance.org

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Paul McKenna Band

The Paul McKenna Band have won Up and Coming Artist of the Year at the MG Scots Trad Music Awards!

We would like to thank everyone who has supported us and helped us out over the last couple of years.

Unfortunately only Ruairidh was available to receive the award as the rest of the guys had a gig at The Davy Lamp Folk Club in Newcastle, but they did make it up for the after party.

Click here to see a very happy Ruairidh Macmillan with the award: http://www.larrydeluxe.com/scotstradmusicawards2009/image/paulmckennaband.jpg

Thanks again for your continuing support. We hope to see you soon!

We are delighted to hear that we’ve been nominated for Up and Coming Artist of the Year 2009 in the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.Thanks to everyone who nominated us.

Voting is open from now till the 20th November and if you want to, you can vote here.

For more information on the Trad Music Awards visit http://www.handsupfortrad.co.uk/tradmusicawards/

I often get the complaint “there’s nothing new coming out of Scotland.” Well that’s just wrong, as any fan of the Greentrax Music label will tell you, and the next two CDs I want to tell you about will prove my point. Between Two Worlds by The Paul McKenna Band, is one of the most innovative sounds, contemporary and traditional in the same breath—the future of Scottish music? I hope so. Led by Paul McKenna on guitar and vocals, the band features David McNee on bouzouki, Ruairidh Macmillan on fiddle, Sean Gray on flute & whistle, and Ewan Baird on bodhran. Paul McKenna also wrote several of the songs and some of them will be classics, the title song for one. I spent the better part of a day in the store just playing and replaying this CD, making all my customers listen to it. They liked it.

Jack Baker
irishamericannews.com

Between Two Worlds is now available from Itunes.

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If you prefer to have the CD buy it here