On June 11th in 1993 the Mahones performed live for the first time ever. At that time, the astonished audience counted 13 of them on stage which was almost as crowded as the legendary Café Fritz in Baden (their home town), Austria. Since then, a lot might have changed - a lot except one thing: The fun in making music never got lost! Further more, they distilled and matured their own style and apart from playing the well-known and loved Traditionals they increasingly perform their own songs.
The band started its career in playing cover versions of songs from famous bands from Ireland and England, like The Pogues or The Oysterband. Later they added not only characteristic dances from north-western areas of Europe to their set but also not so well-known material. More and more they proved their good feeling for Irish music by their own varied arranged compositions based on the traditional instrumentation and the four vocal parts.
Our CD: "NOT TO TAME" - Na Mahones ó Inis Beag (2001)
We tried to reflect the evolution of the band and of course of our music ;-) in the selection of the songs. Some of them we have been playing for years now and others just came to life during the recording sessions in the studio.
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