Gerry O'Beirne

Gerry O’Beirne is a renowned guitarist, songwriter and producer. His songs such as the Holy Ground, Western Highway and Shades Of Gloria have been recorded by Mary Black, Maura O’Connell, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and many others.

He has released four solo albums of his songs and instrumental music and has toured the globe as a solo artist and with Patrick Street, The Sharon Shannon Band, Midnight Well, Andy M. Stewart, Kevin Burke, Andy Irvine, the Waterboys and Arthur Russell’s Instrumentals. He has performed at the White House and on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion, opened for the Grateful Dead, and played electric guitar with Marianne Faithfull.

Gerry has played with a Romanian orchestra and choir in a cemetery in Transylvania at night (The Merry Cemetery Of Sapanta by Shaun Davey). He has written music for film and theatre and appeared on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Recently he has been working with New York composer Peter Gordon on a recording of the music of the legendary Arthur Russell, and recorded recently with Peter Gordon and Tim Burgess of the Charlatans.

His music has been celebrated in a special concert at Sligo’s Fleadh Cheoil and his song All Down The Day was nominated recently for song of the year at the Folk Awards.