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Paddy Keenan was born on 30 January, 1950 in Trim, County Meath, Ireland, is an Irish player of the uilleann pipes (born 1950). Discover Paddy Keenan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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Trim, County Meath, Ireland |
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Paddy Keenan Net Worth
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Paddy Keenan (born 30 January 1950) is an Irish player of the uilleann pipes who first gained fame as a founding member of The Bothy Band.
Paddy Keenan was born in Trim, County Meath in 1950 to John Keenan (an Irish Traveller) and Mary Bravender Keenan (of settled descent).
Though the Keenan family abandoned the Traveling lifestyle early in Paddy's life, he spent much of his youth contending with discrimination, including regular physical confrontations.
His father and grandfather both played the pipes, and his father spent many nights playing along with piper Johnny Doran.
When he was about six years old, Keenan was introduced to the tin whistle by his brother Johnny (a notable Irish banjo player) and began playing the pipes around age nine.
During this period, the Keenan household was an ongoing session.
At age fourteen, Keenan played his first major concert at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, followed by a few years of touring with a number of musicians, including his father, as "The Pavees."
At seventeen, Keenan went to England in an attempt to escape the strictness of his father's household, and ended up busking around London, singing and playing blues and rock songs on guitar for most of the following four years.
Six years later, in 1966, Keenan's father bought him a full set made by the Crowley family, which (with the addition of a Leo Rowsome chanter), Paddy played until 2000.
At that point, Keenan received a full set from maker Dave Williams of Grimsby, England, who died a few years later in a car accident.
This set, which was a copy of the previous Crowley set, remains Keenan's primary instrument.
He plays a boxwood chanter made by David Quinn with this set.
With Frankie Gavin and Junji Shirota (ja)
See also The Bothy Band Discography
Since that group's dissolution in the late 1970s, Keenan has released a number of solo and collaborative recordings, and continues to tour both as a soloist, and with singer/guitarist Tommy O'Sullivan.
After nearly selling or throwing away his pipes several times, he discovered in 1971 that busking with them was far more lucrative than with the guitar, and resumed his piping career.
Returning to Dublin, Keenan played regularly with his brothers and father at folk clubs and various venues around Ireland.
In 1975, he was part of a band called 'Seachtar', from the Irish word for 'seven people.' This band was the genesis of The Bothy Band, of which Keenan was a mainstay from its inception to its demise in 1979.
Keenan's first (and eponymous) solo album appeared in 1975, and he also duetted with fiddler Paddy Glackin on the 1978 album Doublin.
After rejecting the chance to join Moving Hearts in the early 1980s, Keenan's musical career went into abeyance.
He subsequently recorded a second solo album for Gael-Linn Records, Poirt An Phiobaire, in 1983.
However, in the 1990s he relocated to North America, rediscovered his musical talents and in 1997 issued Na Keen Affair, recorded at Dadyeen Studios, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
This led to an ongoing musical relationship with the London-born, Kerry-based guitarist Tommy O'Sullivan.
Together, the pair issued The Long Grazing Acre in 2001, touring jointly to promote the album.
According to their respective websites, Keenan and O'Sullivan have continued to perform together periodically since 2001.
The 2008 documentary Dambé: The Mali Project tells the story of his 3000-mile cross-cultural musical adventure with Liam Ó Maonlaí (Hothouse Flowers) and friends, and features performances from the Festival au Désert.
Upon demonstrating an aptitude for, and interest in the pipes around the age of ten, John Keenan got Paddy a full set of pipes by John Clarks.