| Home What is a Drum Circle Programs Community Team Building Wellness Meet Deke Kincade Instruction Music Bio & Clients Print Bio Calendar Contact |
| COPYRIGHT © 2006 - 2010 DEKE KINCADE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |
| Thursday, August 7, 2008 Herald eXtra | 5b US Senator’s son to sing in Tuam and Barnaderg THE son of a retired US Democratic Senator from Pittsburg, Jimmy Lamb, whose grandmother emigrated from the Abbeyknockmoy area as a teenager, will be back home singing with his group Guaranteed Irish in Tuam and Barnaderg next week. The top American-Irish cabaret act who have played support for Irish stars such as Paddy Reilly, John Sheehan of the Dubliners, The Sands Family and The Irish Rovers will play in Geoghegan’s Bar, Tuam on Wed next August 13 and an early show at The Red Gap Inn, Barnaderg on Sunday August 17. Jimmy Lamb sings and plays piano and bass guitar with the group. His grandmother Agnes Dunne emigrated to the US from Cloonkeen, Abbeyknockmoy and her son Thomas F Lamb was a Democratic Senator for Pittsburg for many years. It will be a sort of a homecoming for Jimmy Lamb as he has many cousins in the area including the Dunne families in Cloonkeen, Abbeyknockmoy, Skehana and Tuam. It is to be expected that Jimmy would be musical as his first cousins include the Dunne Brothers from Abbert who had The Westcoasters Showband many years ago and he is also a cousin of the Keane brothers, John and Mike from |
| Abbeyknockmoy, who are very much involved in the music business with their own band Tigamajig. Jimmy’s band have received rave reviews in the American- Irish media for their most recent album titled We Won’t Come Home ‘Till Morning which is a mix of rip-roaring Irish ballads, reels, polkas plus a smattering of American Bluegrass and Country music. “These boys, even though they are third and fourth generation Irish, sing Traditional ballads better than many singers born and raised in the Emerald Isle,” stated a review in one US newspaper. The others in the group are Bruce Foley whose great-grandfather came from Antrim and his great-grand-mother from Kerry and Paddy Folan whose grandparents were also Irish emigrants. For the current Irish tour the group will also be augmented by a leading session musician in the Pittsburg area, drummer Deke Kincade, who despite his un- Irish sounding name also claims to have Irish ancestors. During their Irish tour the lads will also play at the Roundstone Arts Festival on Friday and Saturday week August 15 and 16 as well as a concert in Antrim which will be a homecoming gig for band member Bruce Foley. The Phil Coulter classic Steal Away is sung by Jimmy Lamb on the album. “The message is one of hope. Better Days are coming as long as we’re together,” he says. Jimmy also dedicates the song Come Back Paddy Reilly to his |
| late uncle and godfather J Frank Gannon who urged him to learn the song from the time he started to play guitar. “In the 1950s he and his friend shared a summer place that had a phonograph. “An old recording of this Percy French classic was the topplaying record on that machine. I’ll always associate that song with uncle Frank who passed away in 2005.” Jimmy also handles the vocals on the John Prine song Paradise. He says he learned this song from one of his cousins in North Galway. “John Prine has a great following in Ireland and his lyrics are funny or provocative, usually both. “This song is about a beautiful piece of land in Kentucky that was ruined by a strip mining operation many years ago,” says Jimmy. So it seems that those who go along to see and hear Guaranteed Irish at their gigs in Tuam and Barnaderg next week are in for a mixed bag of music from those boys who are lauded in some sections of the music press in the US as being capable of singing Irish songs better than the Irish themselves! Now that Jimmy Lamb’s dad, the retired Senator, is no longer visiting his cousins in North Galway as frequently as in his younger years his son is carrying on the family tradition and singing for them as well! — T.G. |