Martin Hayes (musician)
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Martin Hayes (born 1962) is a fiddler, born in Maghera (between Feakle and Tulla) in East County Clare, Ireland, and now living in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has been the All Ireland Fiddle Champion six times, and has won a National Entertainment Award, and the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2000 award for Instrumentalist of the Year. Hayes has recorded four albums – his self titled debut album (recorded with Randall Bays on guitar and Jim Chapman on the piano) Under the Moon (Steve Cooney on guitar - P. J. Hayes (his father) on fiddle -Randal Bays on guitar and fiddle - John Williams on concertina and accordion) and two (The Lonesome Touch and Live in Seattle) with his current guitarist, Denis Cahill.
[edit] Discography
- Martin Hayes (1993)
- Under The Moon (1995)
- The Lonesome Touch (1997, with Dennis Cahill)
- Live In Seattle (1999, with Dennis Cahill)