Bill Fahy
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| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Musician |
| Location | Rome, NY, United States |
| Introduction | Nothing more enjoyable than playing and performing music. I play guitar, mandolin, clawhammer banjo, bass, and tenor banjo. Right now I have five bands that get occasional gigs - Soldiers Joy (a duet with Fiddler Amanda Straney doing Civil War Music), Mighty Craic (one fun band!!) Fahy Family Band (with my daughter and neice) - Flophouse String Band, and Craobh Dugan, the local branch of Comhaltas Ceoterori Eirinn. Plus I enjoy teaching guitar and mandolin and have 4-5 students at any given time. |
| Interests | The music and history of the common soldier during the Civil War. Traditional American and Celtic Music - Irish, Old Time, Bluegrass, Americana, and most every other musical form. |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, Monkey Business (the Marx Brothers one), The Conformist, My Favorite Year, Play it Again Sam, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, To Be or Not to Be (Jack Benny and Carol Lombard), The Magnificant Seven |
| Favorite music | David Bromberg, Cheiftans, Rockridge Brothers, Lucinda Williams, Rachel Eddy , Emily Shaad, Greatful Dead, Old and in the Way, Tim O'Brien, Graham Parsons, Ella Firzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Mammals, Uncle Earl, Donna the Buffalo, Steve Riley and the Mamu Playboys, Willie, Cash, Dylan, Beatles, Lennon, Ringo, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Rusty Doves, Blarney Rebel Band, The Allens, Cowboy Junkies, Jethro Burns, King Wilkie, Bill Monroe, Billy Bragg and Wilco, Woody Guthrie, The Carter Family, Elders, Gypsy Kings, Basie, Ellington, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Commander Cody, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Rollin Stones, Todalo Shakers, Wake the Dead, Eileen Ivers, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nile, The Flophouse String Band, Craobh Dugan, the Fahy Family band and so much more |
| Favorite books | So many - the first book that infulenced me in a big way? To Kill a Mockingbird The next one ? Germinal So many more - it will have to be a blog topic |