Enda Kenny (singer)

Enda Kenny (singer)

Enda Kenny is an Irish-born Australian folk-singer and songwriter.

Kenny was born in Dublin, and migrated to Melbourne in 1987. [McFadyen, Warwick. "CD reviews". "The Sunday Age", July 24, 2005.] He released his debut album, "Twelve Songs", in 1994. Though self-recorded and self-released, the album received generally solid reviews, and was described by the "Sydney Morning Herald" as "the best folk album to be released in this country since Eric Bogle's "Scraps of Paper". [Elder, Bruce. "A great talent ignored". "Sydney Morning Herald", August 1, 1994.]

It was followed by "Baker's Dozen" in 1996, which received similarly positive reviews. [Elder, Bruce. "A dozen ways to say it". "Sydney Morning Herald", March 25, 1996.] [Ferguson, Ken. "Lunatic logic adds to spellbinding set". "The West Australian", November 26, 1996.] [McCreadie, John. [http://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/webrevs/ekcd0013.htm "Enda Kenny: Baker's Dozen"] . "Living Tradition Magazine".] A song from that album, "Rabin", about assassinated former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, won the Lawson Paterson Award for Songwriting at the Port Fairy Folk Festival. [Bainbridge, Alex. [http://www.greenleft.org.au/1996/235/14174 "Singing about the world we live in"] . "Green Left Weekly", June 19, 1996.] This was followed with a third album, "Six of One" in 1998, which featured a number of covers, and was less well reviewed. [Elder, Bruce. "The guide". "Sydney Morning Herald", June 29, 1998.] Kenny's song "The Language of the Land" from "Twelve Songs" was covered by English folk singer Roy Bailey in the same year. [Elder, Bruce. "The guide". "Sydney Morning Herald", August 31, 1998.]

After a brief hiatus, Kenny released his fourth album, "Cloud Lining", in 2001, again receiving positive reviews. [Elder, Bruce. "Folk-tongued". "Sydney Morning Herald", November 17, 2001.] [McDonald, Graham, Hoffman, W.L. and Foster, Michael. "Songs linger in the memory". "Canberra Times", March 25, 2002.] He released his most recent album, "Here and There" in 2005. In his review of "Here and There", "Sydney Morning Herald" music reviewer Bruce Elder described Kenny as "the best folk singer-songwriter working in Australia." [Elder, Bruce. "Insert". "Sydney Morning Herald", May 28, 2005.]

He has regularly performed at a number of music festivals around the country, including the National Folk Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Maldon Folk Festival, Jamberoo Folk Festival, Illawarra Folk Festival and the National Celtic Festival.

Discography

* "Twelve Songs" (1994)
* "Baker's Dozen" (1996)
* "Six of One" (1998)
* "Cloud Lining" (2001)
* "Here and There" (2005)

References

External links

* [http://www.endakenny.com.au/ Enda Kenny's website]


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