Fiddler's Green (band)

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Fiddler's Green
Founded in	1990
Genre	Irish folk / Folk-punk
Website	[Homepage]
Band members
Guitar, vocals, whistle, mandola	Peter Pathos (Peter Müller)
Guitar, vocals, mandola	Ralf 'Albi' Albers
Fiddle	Tobi Heindl (Tobias Anton Heindl)
Bass	Rainer Schulz
Accordion, bodhrán	Stefan Klug
Drums, percussion	Frank Jooss
Former members
Drums	Eric Obst (1990 - 1995)
Drums	Wolfram Kellner (1995 - 2000)
Fiddle	Tobias Rempe (1991 - 1995)
Fiddle	Tobias Schäfer (1995 - 2000)

Fiddler's Green is a German folk band from Erlangen, formed in 1990. Their first concert under the name of "Fiddler's Green" was at the Newcomer-Festival in Erlangen in November 1990, where the band came second. The first album, entitled "Fiddler's Green", was released in 1992, and was a mixture of live and studio tracks and of traditional and self-written songs. It was released on their own label "Deaf Shepherd Recordings". The band has been signed to a major label, but chose to go back to being independent.

The band has kept up the mix of traditional Irish or Scottish songs and self-written tracks, though the self-written tracks have progressively become less and less 'folky'. The band's influences are wide and varied, but obviously heavily influenced by bands like the Pogues, the Waterboys and Great big sea. The recent CDs also see a clear influence from gothic type bands like Nine Inch Nails.

Having enjoyed growing success in and around Germany, the band reached 1000 played concerts in 2004 (the only band member to play them all is bass player, Rainer Schulz), which was celebrated with a concert at Castle Hoheneck. This concert was filmed and released on two DVDs: Celebrate! and Jubilate! The concert saw participation from former band members and other guest musicians.

What the immediate future holds for Fiddler's Green is not yet clear: main lyric- and music-writer Peter Pathos is leaving the band and they have yet to find a replacement. A new CD is being planned for release in the autumn of 2006.

Discography

Fiddler's Green (1992)
Black Sheep (1993)
King Shepherd (1995)
Make up your mind (1996)
On And On (1997)
Spin Around (1998)
Stagebox (1999) (Live)
Another Sky (2000)
Folk Raider (2002)
Nu Folk (2003)
Celebrate! (2005) (Live)
Celebrate! DVD (2005) (Live)
Jubilate! DVD (2005) (Live)

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Regicide
Schandmaul
Skyclad
The Inchtabokatables
Paddy goes to Holyhead
Thanateros
Feuerschwanz
Flogging Molly
the Pogues
Dropkick Murphys

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