Fintan Returns to Fionn MacCool's December 5, 2008

Fintan blends high energy Celtic, Folk and Acoustic styles to breathe new life into your old favorite pub songs and Irish tunes. 4 and 5 part harmonies matched with lightning fast fiddle and pipe playing are the core of the band's unique sound. Lively traditional arrangement blend seamlessly with roaring contemporary pieces to get the crowd clapping and singing along. With influences as varied as the Old Blind Dogs, Gaelic Storm, Tempest, The Tannahill Weavers and the Pogues, Fintan also creates "instant classic" original tunes that you just can't get out of your head. It's all about good friends, good music and good pint when you're out and about with Fintan. A Little Bit About the Band: Karen - Lead Vocals, Tambourinista Phil - Irish Drum, Vocals, Misc. Unusual Percussion Pat - Guitar, Vocals Bryan - Violin, Vocals Tamara - String Bass Mark - Whistle, Concertina The Salmon and Finn (A Little Bit About Fintan) When Finn was an infant, his mother Muirna entrusted him to two bondswomen, a Druidess and a wise woman, who brought him up as their foster-son. Both acted as guardians, advisers and teachers of war craft. In a story relating to the young hero's growing supernatural powers, Finn went to learn the craft of poetry from Finnegas the Bard, and it was through him that Finn acquired the gifts of prophecy and wisdom. When the two initially met, Finnegas had just caught the Salmon of Knowledge, for whom he had been fishing for seven years in a pool. Fintan, the Salmon of Knowledge was said to be the only survivor of the great flood that was not on Noah's Ark. Finnegas put Finn in charge of cooking the salmon and, as he did so, the youth burned his thumb on the hot flesh. He sucked his thumb and thereby ingested all the salmon's knowledge

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