Biography

Cathal Sean Hayden is an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 fiddle and banjo player of note. He was born on 13 July 1963, in the village of the Rock, Co Tyrone outside Pomeroy, an area immersed in traditional music. The third in the family of eight, he was born into a deep musical background. His father played the banjo and fiddle, and his mother was a pianist, while both grandfathers were fiddle players. Hayden has been All-Ireland Champion on both banjo and fiddle.

Hayden is a member of the group Four Men and a Dog

Four Men and a Dog

Four Men and a Dog is an Irish traditional band that emerged in 1990 during the Belfast Folk Festival. The band plays Irish traditional music with a mixture of different other genres, including rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass, swing, salsa, polka and even rap. They originally had their name because of...

 whose first album, Barking Mad won the Folk Roots best new album award in 1991.

Discography

• Handed Down (1988)
• Barking Mad (1991)
• Shifting Gravel (1993)
• Doctor A's Secret Remedies (1995)
• Long Roads (1996)
• Cathal Hayden (1999)
• Maybe Tonight (2002)
• Live in Belfast (2007)
• Crossroads with Máirtín O'Connor
  Máirtín O'Connor
  Máirtín O'Connor is an Irish button accordionist who began playing the accordion at the age of nine, and his career has seen him as a member of many traditional music groups including, Midnight Well, De Dannan, The Boys of the Lough, and Skylark....
  
   and Seamie O'Dowd
  Seamie O'Dowd
  Seamie O’Dowd is an Irish musician.He recorded his first solo album, Headful Of Echoes, in 2006. It received critical acclaim from many sources and was playlisted on radio programmes in Ireland, the U.K., mainland Europe and the U.S....
  
   (2008)For detailed contents see irishtune.info

External links

• Cathal Hayden's Site
• [ Four Men and a Dog] at Allmusic
• Four Men and a Dog's Official Site

Reviews

• Review by Geoff Wallis of the album Cathal Hayden
• folkmusic.net review of the album Cathal Hayden
• folkworld.de review of the album Cathal Hayden
• Review by Geoff Wallis of the album Live in Belfast
• Eddie Creaney's review of the album Live in Belfast
• Review of Erne

See also

• Four Men and a Dog
  Four Men and a Dog
  Four Men and a Dog is an Irish traditional band that emerged in 1990 during the Belfast Folk Festival. The band plays Irish traditional music with a mixture of different other genres, including rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass, swing, salsa, polka and even rap. They originally had their name because of...