Experience

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  Churchill Downs Racetrack

  • Louisville, Kentucky, United States

  • Maintenance Technician

    • Sep 2022 - Present
    • Louisville, Kentucky, United States

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  Musician

  • Everywhere

  • Banjo & mandolin player

    • 1981 - Present
    • Everywhere

    I also play Irish style tenor banjo and Mandolin. After leaving school in the seventies,I turned to fishing for full-time employment, and its from this community that I got and still get to some degree, my tunes and songs. My playing style would have many influences, but my major influence would have to be Barney McKenna : “The man who put the banjo on the map in Irish Music”

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  RV Armor

  • All over the United States

  • Sub Contractor for RV Armor

    • Apr 2015 - Sep 2022
    • All over the United States

    We now travel around the United States, installing warrantied for life roof systems on Motorhome's, 5th Wheel's, Trailers and all types of RV's

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  Self-employed

  • Alaska & All over the United States

  • Remodeler

    • 2002 - Sep 2022
    • Alaska & All over the United States

    Remodeling in Alaska then after leaving Alaska in 2012, flipping houses all over the U.S.

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  Curlew Arts

  • Anchorage, Alaska Area

  • Owner/Operator - Concert and tour organiser

    • 1989 - 2012
    • Anchorage, Alaska Area

    For many years I organized Irish Music tours all around Alaska and also produced the Anchorage and Palmer gigs. I put on my first tour in 1989, under the name "Curlew Arts", with Mick Moloney, Jimmy Keane and Robbie O'Connell, having put on the gig for the "Legends of Irish Music (later to become Patrick Street) and Silly Wizard.Some of the Artists I have put on tour in Alaska, in no particular order :Patrick Street - Mick Moloney, Robbie O'Connell & Jimmy Keane - Tommy Sands - Solas - Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill - 3 Way Street - Paddy O'Brien - Laurence Nugent - Seán O'Driscoll - Johnny Connolly - Tom Creegan - Aidan Brennan - Séamus Egan (West Coast) - Mike Beglan - Open House - Andy Irvine - Johnny Cunningham - Susan McKeown - Charlie Piggott & Gerry Harrington - Emer Mayock - Patty Furlong - Eamon O'Leary - Alan Kelly & Jim Murray - Peter Yeates - The Suffering Gaels - Joe Burke & Anne Conroy - Randal Bays - Eugene Lambe - Joe Derrane, Frank Ferrel & Paul MacDonald - Liz Carroll, Billy McComiskey & Andy O'Brien - Kevin Burke - Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin & Patrick Ourceau - James Kelly - John Carty - Marie Reilly - Seámus ConnollyI started the Alaska Irish Music Festival as an organization set up to bring Irish Music Dance & Culture to Alaska through our Annual festival and year round concerts.

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  Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay

  • Bering Sea, Bristol Bay, Gulf of Alaska & Ireland

  • Fisherman

    • 1984 - 2002
    • Bering Sea, Bristol Bay, Gulf of Alaska & Ireland

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  Ireland

  • Skerries, Howth, Dunmore East, Isle of Man, Ros a' Mhil & Galway

  • Fisherman

    • 1977 - 1984
    • Skerries, Howth, Dunmore East, Isle of Man, Ros a' Mhil & Galway