Fiddler’s Green (band)

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Fiddler’s Green
Founded in	1990
Genre	Irish folk / Folk rock / Folk punk
Website	Homepage
Band members
Guitar, vocals, mandola	Ralf 'Albi' Albers
Fiddle	Tobi Heindl (Tobias Anton Heindl)
Bass	Rainer Schulz
Accordion, bodhrán	Stefan Klug
Drums, percussion	Frank Jooss
Guitar, vocals	Patrick 'Pat' Prziwara
Former members
Fiddle	Dr. Robert Oppel (1990 - 1991)
Drums	Eric Obst (1990 - 1995)
Drums	Wolfram Kellner (1995 - 2000)
Fiddle	Tobias Rempe (1991 - 1995)
Fiddle	Tobias Schäfer (1995 - 2000)
Guitar, whistle, mandola	Peter Pathos (Peter Müller) (1990 - 2006)

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Fiddler’s Green with new guitar player at the "Schicksalsfest" in Hergenrath (B) near Aachen

Fiddler’s Green is a German band from Erlangen that plays independent Irish speedfolk, formed in 1990. Their first concert under the name of Fiddler’s Green was at the Newcomer-Festival in Erlangen in November 1990, where the band came second. The first album, entitled "Fiddler’s Green", was released in 1992, and was a mixture of live and studio tracks and of traditional and self-written songs. It was released on their own label, Deaf Shepherd Recordings. The band has been signed to a major label, but chose to go back to being independent.

The band has kept up the mix of traditional Irish or Scottish songs and self-written tracks, though the self-written tracks have progressively become less and less folky. The band's influences are wide and varied, but obviously heavily influenced by Celtic rock bands like the Pogues, the Waterboys and Great Big Sea. Recent albums also see a clear influence from Gothic rock bands like Nine Inch Nails. Having enjoyed growing success in and around Germany, the band reached 1000 played concerts in 2004 (the only band member to play them all is bass player, Rainer Schulz), which was celebrated with a concert at Castle Hoheneck. This concert was filmed and released on two DVDs: Celebrate! and Jubilate! The concert saw participation from former band members and other guest musicians. Main lyric and music writer Peter Pathos has left the band in summer 2006 and was replaced by Patrick 'Pat' Prziwara.