| Jon Hicks: Guitar,
Vocals. |
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Jon is without doubt the
musical troubadour of the band. Born near Newcastle in England, Jon
arrived on the streets of Amsterdam as a teenager to busk and to
learn to love the serendipity that such a lifestyle threw in his
direction. Having repeated such an adventure in Italy, Jon first
came to Ireland as a member of the well known raggle-taggle band
"The Big Geraniums," who set up home in the busy music scene that
was happening in Galway at that time. |
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| When after some months the
"Geraniums" left the City of the Tribes, Jon stayed on to perfect
his exhilarating and flamboyant style on the DADGAD tuned Acoustic
Guitar. During this time he was a member of the well known local
band "Gan Ainm", whose members included Declan Corey, Derek O Shea
and Frank Ryan and over four years they recorded and gigged as far
afield as Iceland and Gort. He took a break from Ireland to go to
San Francisco, where he recorded a solo guitar album for the
American Record Label Tall Tree. The C.D., which features Paddy
Keenan on pipes and has some very complementary liner notes written
by none other than Arty McGlynn, has been successful in the States
but is unfortunately not readily available on this side of the
water. Back in Ireland, he set up shop in Dublin and immersed
himself in the Trad. scene in the Capital. He is now once again based
in Galway where when not touring with Lia Luachra he works the controls
of his recording studio.
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