Quare Crack are an fabulous Irish folk band, featuring the critically renowned Dezi Donelly, ably backed up by no less than Kieran Cunningham and Andy Jones, also musicians performing at the top of their game.
It is a well known cliche, to describe a fiddle player as "a devil fiddler" but in Dezi Donnelly's case this is more of an understatement! The sibling of a Manchester fiddler dynasty is both All Britain and All Ireland Champion, a title truly deserved for his brilliant jigs and reels.
Having played the fiddle since the age of 7, Dezi was North West and All Britain fiddle champion by the age of 9. Amazingly, by the age of 15, he had won the All Ireland championship an astounding 5 times! Dezi joined legendary Manchester-Irish band, Toss The Feathers, whilst still in his teens. Between 1988-91 and 1994-95 he appeared on the brilliant "Columbus Eclipse" and "Awakenings" albums.
The band isn't all about Dezi though, and Kieran and Andy contribute massively to a sound which is massively entertaining and acclaimed amongst Irish folk protagnoaists all over Europe. |