Sean Daly & The Shams

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Sean Daly

Sean Daly grew up during the troubles and from an early age was inspired by music that championed freedom. His listened as the Wolfe Tones sang songs about Ireland, and the Irish Brigade sang songs about the ten. At thirteen he sang “Joe MacManus” in front of more than a thousand comrades. He carried those songs with him through his life, across the ocean where he finally settled in San Francisco. He played cover songs, rock and roll, but he longed to sing songs of freedom, he longed to champion his homeland through song, story, and action. When he moved his family back to Donegal he began to find his songs again. The Shams toured throughout Europe, and sang Rebel Songs, Sean knowing every word by heart, singing them from his memories as a young boy, and living the music as a homage to what the ten suffered in the H Block cells.