grew up on a pretty wild assortment of music: Count Basie, Verdi, Leadbelly, Lerner and Loewe, Chopin, folk music from Portugal, Spain and Chile (where he was living) Theodore Bikel, Woody Guthrie, Sam Cooke, Palestrina, the Beatles.  He still plays and sings most of them, and he still loves them all.

About the only things he remembers clearly from his high school days are the school choir, the DC Youth Orchestra (3rd chair cello), singing Dylan in church basements and jamming on Hendrix and Steppenwolf in a friend's basement.

When he was 18 he wandered into a choral audition by accident and ended up performing and recording under Leonard Bernstein.  He studied composition and orchestration for three years with W.S. Huffman and then set out on a peculiar musical career.

Erratic might be a better word. He did more choral work, sang in dinner theaters, played bar gigs, entertained in the lounge car of the Autotrain, wrote music for live theater and for choirs, played more bar gigs, wrote vocal, horn and string arrangements for people making pop records, recorded his own songs and sold them off the stage at coffeehouses, sang in a jazz vocal quartet, played yet more bar gigs, toured with some giant dinosaur puppets and sang for a couple of years with the Washington Bach Consort.

Hailing from Limerick, Ireland, recently settled in Alexandria, VA. However, she is no stranger to the states, having toured here, as well as in Europe.  She's released six albums, including the most recent self titled CD containing “My Man,” “Naked,” and “Guilty of Despair.”  When Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains says hers is “a voice the world should hear” pay attention.  With a hint of Alanis Morissette, her strong voice with a lush vibrato can soar over a pop arrangement in one number and in the next, soften enough to sing a traditional folk number like Sandy Denny.  She's a fourth-generation musician from Ireland with melodic original songs in a variety of styles, from earthy folk to hard-hitting pop.  No stranger to traditional music, she's also covered “Long Black Veil” and “All My Trials” with an emotional delivery that makes you believe she wrote them.

Mary Cliff, host of Traditions (WERA-LP), was so impressed with Siobhán’s voice when she first heard her last summer, that she drove Siobhán to the 2017 North East Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) conference in Stamford, CT and introduced her as a 'New Emerging Artist.'

Siobhán opened for Nick Lowe at the Birchmere Music hall (2017) and was also invited to perform on FOX 5 DC on St Patrick’s Day (2017).  You can watch the video here.