Leo O'Kelly

Leo O'Kelly (born 27 November 1949, Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland) is an Irish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. He is mainly known as a member of the Irish folk duet Tír na nÓg. After the band broke up, he produced albums on Polydor and EMI labels for other Irish artists like Restless Nights in 1975 by Ray Dolan who wrote "Hey Friend" on the first Tír na nÓg LP. In 2000, Leo released his first solo album called Glare, then Proto in 2003 which consists in a collection of songs that he recorded between 1975 and 2001 whose one is a cover with Mark Gilligan of Nick Drake's "Northern Sky" and another is a vocal improvisation by his son, Aaron O'Kelly, at the age of 1. His third album, Will, was released in February 2011 and features the poems of John McKenna set to music.

Leo O'Kelly
Leo O'Kelly in concert with Tír na nÓg, performing his song "Daisy Lady" at the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, Ireland on 21 August 2009.
Background information
Born (1949-11-27) 27 November 1949
Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland
Genresfolk, progressive folk, folk rock, psychedelic rock, rock, techno, electro, New Beat
Occupation(s)Musician, singer-songwriter, producer
InstrumentsGuitar, violin, vocals, bass guitar, tin whistle, dulcimer, synthesizer, bongos
Years active1964–present
LabelsChrysalis, Polydor, EMI, Atco, Decca, Rykodisc, Radio Activ, Clarinda & 1st, Life & Living Records
Associated actsThe Word
The Tropical Showband
Emmet Spiceland
Tír na nÓg
Naima
Carrier Frequency
Garvan Gallagher
The Food Zebras
Websitewww.leookelly.ie

Discography

With Tír na nÓg

Solo
  • "Portsmouth" from 10 Years On by various artists (1977)
  • "Love Go Round" from Snakes & Ladders by various artists (1996)
  • Glare (2001)
  • Proto (2003)
  • Will (2011)

With Carrier Frequency
  • "Telecaster Man" (1989) 12" single

As producer
gollark: You should just pick your words using an actual uniform random number generator then, it is known that humans are awful at this.
gollark: It's 61 for 4 though.
gollark: Oh yes, for one word, right.
gollark: 61 bits of entropy? `log2(40_000) * 4`?
gollark: That's 61 bits, which seems fine.

References
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  2. "reissues of psych folk / folkrock, page 5". Psychedelicfolk.homestead.com. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
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  5. Nick Guida. "The Best Irish Folk: Festival and Anthology recordings at theBalladeers". Nick-kelly.com. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  6. "Re: Happy (belated) Birthday!". Archived from the original on 23 January 2004. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  7. https://archive.is/20080908080640/http://irishrock.org/ipnw/bands/azuredays.html. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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