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Musiclee Artists
 | Ronan O' Snodaigh Kíla are an Irish folk music/world music group. The original lineup for the band was Eoin Dillon; Uileann
pipes, Colm Mac Con Iomaire; fiddle, Rossa Ó Snodaigh; Whistle, Bones, Rónán Ó
Snodaigh; Bodhrán, Karl Odlum; Bass, David Odlum, Guitar. Kíla was formed in 1987 in the Irish Language
secondary school, Coláiste Eoin in Co. Dublin. Colm Ó Snodaigh joined the band in 1988 for Kíla's first
festival appearance at the European Youth Music Festival, which was held in Bonn in Germany.
In 1991, Colm Mac Con
Iomaire and Dave Odlum left Kíla to join The Frames, an Irish rock band. In the same year, Dee Armstrong joined the band as
a replacement for Colm Mac Con Iomaire and Eoin O'Brien replaced Dave Odlum. Dave Reidy also joined as a lead guitarist, though
he emigrated to San Francisco a year later. Karl was then replaced by Ed Kelly on bass who emigrated to Scotland a little over a
year after the recording Mind the Gap in 1994. Eoin O'Brien was replaced by Lance Hogan and Laurence O Keefe filled Ed's
shoes till Brian Hogan assumed pole position on bass prior to recording Tóg É Go Bog É. This line-up has been
unchanged since 1996.
Rónán, Rossa, and Colm are sons of publisher Pádraig Ó Snodaigh and
artist Cliodna Cussen, and brother of Irish parliamentarian, Aengus Ó Snodaigh. Brian and Lance are sons of folk singer
Larry Hogan and artist Róisín Daly. Dee is the daughter of classical musicians: keyboardist Gillian Armstrong and
oboist Lindsey Armstrong.
They have travelled the world for the past ten years and have played at many, many festivals
including Dún Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures, Electric Picnic, Womadelaide, Glastonbury, Féile an
Dóilín, St Chartier and The Stockholm Water Festival. Their music is widely distributed around the world both
physically through their website [1] and digitally through iTunes. They all compose, arrange and conjure up the many different
sonic "colours" that have become their musical trademark.
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