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Alan Kelly
Alan (b. 1984) hails from the glorious city of Kilkenny (South East of Ireland), he comes from a very musical family led by his grandfather John who has thrilled audiences all over the South East region of Ireland for more than half a century.
Alan has been entertaining crowds between Ireland and England for the past ten years and is the solid Irish singing voice behind this great group.
He has recently graduated from Newcastle University, where his main instrument of study was voice, with a degree in Folk and Traditional Music and is now pursuing a Masters, in performance, in the same area.
His knowledge and passion for the songs that he loves really breaks through in every performance (with the aid of a good few drinks), like any true Irish man.
Alan is also a talented songwriter and writes a number of the bands contemporary Irish folk songs. The bands debut album will appear later in 2008 with a great mix of reinvented Irish traditional songs along with the groups own newly written material.
Will Lang
Will is one of the best young Bodhran players on the scene, has gained wide spread recognition from being a past All-Britain Champion, All-Ireland Finalist and founder member of the 'BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards' finalists Chillum.
In addition to being in high demand on the folk circuit Will has aroused considerable interest from world musicians due to his unique Bhangra Bodhran style and has played with Mercury Music Award winning Nitin Sawhney.
Will's unique approach helps create the genre-defying style of the band.
Shona Kipling
Shona began playing accordion aged 11 as physiotherapy following a badly broken arm, and rapidly started winning competitions run by Comhaltas, becoming UK champion twice, and playing in three all-Ireland finals.
In 2002 Shona was a finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award competition. In 2003 she was guest accordionist with the Northern Sinfonia in their production of the "Threepenny opera" and in 2004, Shona was the only female and only traditional musician out of 2000 applicants to be awarded one of the first five BBC Fame Academy Bursaries, to enable talented young musicians to develop their professional career.
Paul Burns
Paul (b.1983) comes from Sunderland in the North East of England where he began playing classical music at the age of six. Influenced by bands such as Planxty, The Dubliners and The Fureys to name a few, he began playing Irish Traditional music at the later age of seventeen and realised that this genre was his passion!
He recently graduated with a degree in Folk and Traditional Music from Newcastle University where he was greatly influenced by musicians such as Catriona MacDonald, Desi Wilkinson and Alistair Anderson.
He spent some time studying Irish Traditional Music at the University of Limerick (Rep of Ireland) where he was influenced by players such as Liz Doherty, Colin Farrell and Siobhan Peoples. 
Paul has performed throughout the North East of England and has taken part in various collaboration projects in Ireland and Europe.
Stephen Gascoigne
Stephen (b.1984) born in the North East of England, Gateshead. Coming from a very musical family it was obvious from a very early age that music would play a major part in his life.
At the age of six his father taught him to play the guitar which he pursued through school, college and then later onto a B,A Honours Degree in Popular Music at Northumbria University.
After Graduating in 2006 Stephen headed off to Spain (Canary Islands) where he spent his time entertaining crowds on the countries renowned music circuit, gaining valuable notoriety and experience throughout. Since returning to the U.K Stephen has continued to work all over the North East and the rest of the country, this is how he became introduced to Alan Kelly and the rest of the band. Stephen's Musical influences include Paul Weller, The Beatles, Oasis, John Mayer and Damien Rice.
Joanna Lindsay-Dunn
Jo hails from Stockport where she started her musical involvement at the age of 7 when she took up playing the piano.
She then became a member of the Fosbrooks dance team with whom she began performing at the age of 9 and gained many skills such as playing the fiddle, accordion, singing and clog dancing.
This gave her many opportunities such as performing on Blue Peter then later Songs of Praise and also taking part in the Youth Proms which led to a performance at the Royal Albert Hall.
She has performed in France, Germany, Sweden and across the UK in the past and is now in her third year on the Folk and Traditional Music degree at Newcastle University.