DESERT ACES
Bluegrass/country/rhythm n' roots/ folk/trad
Desert Aces will play:
Tumbleweed Love, Cobblestone, Dublin 14th July
Derry Bluegrass & folk festival SAT 4TH aUGUST
Dunmore East Bluegrass Festival 23-27th August
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In 2003 the brothers Mike and Barry Kehoe stood in the middle of Joshua Tree National Park at the shrine dedicated to the memory of Gram Parsons. It was on or near this location that Gram had been cremated. As they stood at the base of a great sandstone boulder scribbled with messages of hope and loss, the silence was torn apart by a silver fighter jet as it buzzed the brothers and flew away across the clear blue sky. They stood there in awe and appreciation of the memory of one of country musics lost and lamented sons and knew that they had a mission to fulfill. They took the name inspired by the desert fly boys and went forth to form a Country Rhythm and Roots sensation.
On returning to Dublin they went to a Dirk Powell concert where they met the Banjo man and folk singer Pete McGuire. Shortly after this they gathered many musicians to jam and session with and produced their first album of Bluegrass, Old Time and Rhythm n' Roots tunes with the help of Darren Hurley and Camille Champarnaud called: "Spades dig, hearts break, diamonds shine, clubs just beat it." More recently the boys have been joined by Graham Nolan, singer Sarah Baldwin and singer/songwriter Aoife Moriarty.
Desert Aces play a mix of high octane bluegrass standards and county trad songs that have been known to cause perfectly good, sensible and decent people to leap about stomping their boots and hollering like lunatics.
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Desert Aces
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