Current bands:
TRIPTYCH www.triptychtrad.com (USA/Canada): Old and new music from Irish, Scots, and Quebecois traditions. Laura Risk - fiddle; Kieran Jordan - percussive dance; Paddy League - guitar, bodhran, mandolin, bouzouki, vocals ---- DUNYA ENSEMBLE www.dunyainc.org (USA/Turkey/Greece/Cyprus): Mehmet Ali Sanlikol - ud, ney, saz, zurna, vocals; Bob Labaree - ceng, bendir, vocals; Cem Mutlu - percussion, vocals; Engin Gunaydin - percussion, vocals; Theodoros Vakanas - violin, vocals; Eylem Basaldi - violin; Panayotis League - laouto, percussion, kemence, vocals
O ALLOS (Greece): Traditional music from the Aegean islands. Kostas Dardanos - tsambouna, toumbaki, vocals; Alexandros Kleidonas - tsambouna, lyra, toumbaki, vocals; Periklis Schinas - tsambouna, lyra, laouto, toumbaki, vocals; Panayiotis League - tsambouna, laouto, violin, vocals ---- TRIXALLOUI (Greece): Traditional music from the Dodecanese Islands. Periklis Schinas - tsambouna, lyra, laouto, vocals; Panayiotis League - tsambouna, laouto, violin, vocals. THE BOSTON SEFERIS PROJECT: New contemporary settings of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning Greek poet. OTHER PROJECTS:
I am currently playing violin in the orchestra of the Rethymno Asia Minor Society Chorus as well as in various local groups in Crete.
In the US, I often play Greek and Turkish music with violinist Beth Bahia Cohen, as well as with santouri players Yiannis Roussos and Dean Lambros. Other musicians who I often accompany or collaborate with include:
Laura Cortese,
Lissa Schneckenburger,
Matt and Shannon Heaton,
Manolis Fronimakis,
Eric Merrill and The Western Star,
Aoife Clancy,
Randal Bays,
Stellamara,
Leonidas Tsantiris, and Skordalia.
Influences
My grandfather Henry Kelly, Cretan and Kalymnian fiddlers (Manolis Manioudakis, Naftis, Charchalis, Mavros, Thodoris Polychronakis, O Nysirios, To Ennima, M. Kappas), Woody Williams, Manolis Houlis, Skevos Karavokiros, Giorgos Koutsourelis, sean-nos dancing, old-school ceili bands, Clare concertina and fiddle music, XTC, Paulinho da Viola, Baden Powell, Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Toquinho, Gonzagão, Mestres Salustiano, Batista, and Luiz Paixão, Seferis, Gatsos, Cavafy, Vinicius de Morães, Trilok Gurtu, Paul Curreri, Frank Zappa, the bass drummer in a New Orleans brass band I heard when I was five, Al Petteway, Sokratis Malamas, Ross Daly, Alec Finn, Donal Lunny, Haig Yiadzijian, Indra Lal Shreshta, Rush, Ed Johnson, Michael League, Nikos Oikonomidis, and countless others.
Paddy (Panayotis) League is a performer, composer, and music educator specializing in the traditional music of his ancestral Greece and Ireland as well as the folkloric and popular music of Brazil. Performing on a variety of instruments, including violin, guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, various lutes, rabeca (a Brazilian folk fiddle), tsambouna (the Greek island bagpipe), and percussion, he is a driving force in the contemporary traditional music scene. Recently relocated to Boston from the island of Crete, Paddy performs throughout North and South America and Europe. Recent shows include A Christmas Celtic Sojourn at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston; the Magic Flute festival in Utrecht, Holland; the "Piping Shepherds" festival in Gergeri, Crete; FIAT in Quebec City; The Pancycladic Folk Wind Instrument Festival on the island of Paros; and A St. Patrick's Day Celtic Sojourn at Boston's John Hancock Hall.
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What the crack Paddy me aul flower??? Hope everything is going well for you in.... where are you?? All the very best in life and music wherever you may be man. Filia...
Hey Paddy! Thanks for the add. Hope to see you and Laura at some point. I'm back in my house in York SC, so if ya'll need a stop-over, place to stay or just a visit - stop on by! Cheers! Susan
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