Paddy O'Brien

Paddy O'Brien

Paddy O'Brien

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Latest Release

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  • Country Highways
  • September 2025
  • 28 Songs

Top Songs

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There's Always a Light in the Church
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The Traveller's Prayer
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The Crash on the Highway
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Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight
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Seven Spanish Angels

Albums

  • Country Roots

    Sep 2025 • 25 songs

  • Country Within

    Sep 2025 • 28 songs

  • Somewhere Down the Line

    Aug 2025 • 12 songs

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Paddy O'Brien

Biography

Button accordionist and musicologist Paddy O'Brien was born September 13, 1945 in Daingean, County Offaly, Ireland; after spending several years travelling the Irish countryside learning and collecting traditional songs and folklore -- over the decades, he would amass more than 3000 jigs, reels, airs and marches -- he made his professional debut in 1966 with the Ballinamere Céilí Band, later touring the eastern U.S. with Seán and Kathleen Ryan. In 1969 -- the year he won the first of four top honors in the Oireachtas Competition solo accordion contest -- O'Brien relocated to D...
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