Neil O'Neill's next Games are at Las Vegas, Livermore and Costa Mesa. Check his calendar on his band site, Neil O'Neill & the Celtic Tyger.
Neil headlined the Glasgow Stage at "The Big One, the Caledonia Club's 142nd Scottish Highland Games, Labor Day Weekend, 2007, at the Pleasanton Fairgrounds in California. emcee'D at Oakland's Dunsmuir Games in July, was a featured performer at the Las Vegas Celtic Festival and Highland Games in April, and at the Pomona Games in May.
NeilO-is a proud member of the Caledonian Club of San Francisco (currently serving on the Entertainments Committee).
Music
Latest CD, Scotch Melody Maker available by snail mail for $18.50 (includes postage and handling.) or at live gig venues, be providing some sample music to give you an idea of what I'm up to.
See Neil sing:..
In the works is a new CD, Caledonia Dreamin' (forthcoming)
Movies
On the acting front, I have a clip of my film appearance in the award-winning short-short, 48 Hour Film Project, DOING TIME, which won best acting and direction at the 2005 San Francisco 48 Hour Film Festival . It was submitted to the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. Clips from two new films, Honest Man, and Coyote Hole are in production.
Honest Man, is a docu-feature about R. Budd Dwyer whose controversial suicide in front of a live press conference in 1987, changed the American Justice system forever. TBA in the Fall of 2007. Dir. James Dirschberger/84 Films production.
For Acting information contact JOAN SPANGLER at Look Talent (415) 781-2841
Television
Simpsons, Tom and Jerry, The Actors Studio Interviews, House, History Channel, Friends. Dad's Army, The Two Ronnies, Tommy Cooper, Monty Python, Watch with Mother...The Wednesday Play...David Attenborough's nature programs...CSI-Miami...The Goon Show...
Books
Be Here Now, Jimmy Buffet: A Pirate Looks at 50, John Steinbeck: Travels With Charley. Bhagavad Gita, Guru Gita, The Yoga of Discipline, History of Civilization. Anything by the great Prof Alan Dundes: Life is Like a Chicken Coop Sandwich, etc...
sHAKES PLAYS...Autobiography of a Yogi...Paramahamsa Yogananda...
Heroes
Braveheart, Shrek, Mario Lanza, Shakespeare, Bob Dylan, Seamus Heaney, John Steinbeck, Lennon and McCartney, Sean Connery, James Bond the Original. Bogie, ET, Steven Spielberg, Neil Armstrong, Billy Connolly, Eddie Izzard...Mimi Farina, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary.
Utpaladeva. Abhinavgupta, Thoreau, Emerson, Burns, Mark Twain...
Neil O'Neill's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Johnstone, Scotland
Ethnicity:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Gemini
Education:
Grad / professional school
Occupation:
Actor, musician
Neil O'Neill's Schools
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Professional
Major: Education
Clubs: Amnesty
Diablo Valley College
Pleasant Hill, CA
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: Liberal Arts
Minor: Drama
Clubs: Drama
Greek:
Alpha Gamma Sigma
About me:
Neil O'Neill, Scotch Melody Maker, Celtic Troubadour, Actor
I'm a native born Scotsman with three Irish grandparents... sing tenor, inherited from Charlie Duffin, maternal grandfather whose great tenor voice inspired and entertained the troops, his Regiment: The Royal Enniskillen Fusiliers, during WW I. He also played bagpipes and drums...my first inspiration when I was a wee lad. He sang everything in the Scots/Irish popular repertoire of his day. He especially loved the great John McCormack, and of course, oor ain lad, Robert Burns who lived a mere 20 miles away, in Ayrshire. Granda was born in Stevenston, Ayrshire in 1895.
Passion for music/singing led me to play in various bands, as well as pick up a few instruments on the way: guitar, banjo, pennywhistle, piano harmonica and bass.
Love the classic Rock and Roll era, Beatles, Stones, Eagles, Cream, Sting, but especially enjoy the great accoustic singer/songwriters of the Folk and Roots idiom. The Corries, Eric Bogle, Matt McGinn, Hamish Imlach, James Taylor, Paul Simon, The Clancy Bros, Kate Wolf, Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, Stan Rogers, Runrig, Dougie McClean, as well as the great US folksters, Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Kris Krisofferson, Don McClean, Jim Croce, Greg Brown Pete Seegar, Ewan McColl and on...
I've been so blessed to be a part of Bread & Roses org doing musical outreach in the San Francisco/ Bay Area, singing for involuntary shut-ins anywhere where people are confined. Music can reach, and open hearts and minds. It has healed me, as well as caring for the folks I've had the delight of singing with...If music be the food of love...play on! Shakes said...
I recorded/released a compilation of Scottish/ Irish/ Roots music at the end of 2005, called the SCOTCH MELODY MAKER. It was launched at the Starry Plough Pub, in Berkeley, CA, to a sweet reception, and broadcast on the radio and over the web on the show Cover To Cover, with the great Jack Foley on KPFA 94.1FM. (Nov 15th, 2006). Listen to it...by googling me...its listed...with Esther Valentine... Neil O'Neill & the Celtic Tyger Or you can buy individual song tracks at Amie Street.
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Just in: LAS VEGAS CELTIC FESTIVAL, April 18-21, 2008. Costa Mesa Highland Games on Memorial Day Weekend. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR UPDATES...
As a professional actor I have a couple of film roles in process...
.."http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmltZGIuY29tL25hbWUvbm0yMjc1MzYy"> IMDB Meanwhile, you can see a clip of Honest Man in my uploaded video at the top of the Myspace page.
FYI
I was trained at ACT in San Francisco, studied in Tony Taccone's Master class and performed in 60 + productions-in the greater SF Bay Area...Shakespeare to the Modern playwrights. My first film role was a reporter opposite Jeff Bridges in Francis Coppola's movie, Tucker: A Man and his Dream...
I have some film/theatre photos for your viewing curiosity...
Ambition: Be happy, love the world, serve all...enjoy the abundant gifts...grace that moves within us and without us...
Who I'd like to meet: Steven Spielberg, Paul McCartney, Shrek, William Wallace
Neem Karoli Baba, Arjuna...Mario Lanza!
Merlin, bILL sHAKES...JS BACH...and maybe YOU!
My Scottish Pride I Will Not Hide My Scottish Race Ill Not Disgrace My Scottish Blood Flows Hot And True My Scottish Bravehearts Ill Stand By You Through Thick And Thin Till The Day We Die Our Scottish Flag Will Stand So High I Say This Poem For All The Rest Cos Everyone Knows Scots Are The Best!!!
thank you fo the compliment! yes, i am playing a lot, several different projects and bands. Going down South this weekend. you, too play play play (and sing)!! Cheers and bass wishes Ariane
Hi there, thanks for your request, nice to see you on here. Best wisehs with your music Hope all is well. Ariane PS: it takes me forever to approve FR, sorry bout that!
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