⬇️ MATT WALSH (IR) ⬇️
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BIOGRAPHY
Within the Dublin folk scene he has played with musicians such as Eddie
and Finbar Furey, Christy Moore (Planxty) and others. From 1964 he
gained his first blues experience in the Red Peters blues band, the
regular band at Dublin's "Meetingplace". As early as 1966 he lived in
Berlin for a while and performed in the local folk clubs.
Jobs as a bus conductor in London, fishermen in Ireland and on the east
coast of England, shepherds on the Shetland Islands, etc. brought him
the necessary money for extensive trips to India, the USA and South
America.
From 1976 he settled in Münster and initially toured through West
German clubs with a program mixed with Irish folk music and blues
songs.
In addition to his virtuoso playing of the harmonica, Matt Walsh
distinguishes himself as an expressive singer and begins to write his
own songs, which reflect his experiences from many years of traveling
through the continents and different professional experiences.
After the release of 2 LPs, the band wins the first prize of the WDR
Stadtmusik in 1985. The WDR celebrates the band as "... the rediscovery
of the local blues scene!" Blues colleague Manfred Häder from the
Frankfurt City Bluesband thinks: "The most serious white blues musician
in Germany is Matt Walsh!" and Charly Musselwhite certifies that Walsh
has a "highly individual style ...!"
Willie Geschwender describes it a little more soberly in the
Jazzpodium: "Matt Walsh has a good blues voice, and he blows the harp
technically excellent. You absolutely believe his blues, because he
lived it and certainly still lives it."
According to Ruhr News, Matt Walsh and his band "proved once again at
the Lünen Jazz Days in 1987 that they can undoubtedly be counted among
the best formations in the white blues scene."
(Discography)