Outlaws get heavy airplay

Myles Watson (bass), Sean Hughes (guitar, vocals), Diane Treanor (fiddle, vocals), Brian Walsh (drums, vocals), Tom Hanway (5-string banjo, vocals); Barry Lenard (button accordion) out of shot

Ireland’s top country deejays are giving heavy rotation to Empty mansions, the groundbreaking CD by the Outlaws, a contemporary country band based in Co. Monaghan. In May the Outlaws won the Top Entertaining Band Award 2007 at the Tipperary Mid-West Radio Country Awards dinner and ceremony at the Templemore Arms, Co. Tipperary. Empty mansions (Sharpe CD 310) has earned 'album of the week' and the coveted #1 spot on radio stations throughout the country. They recently toured the Highlands of Scotland, winning over new audiences, who proclaimed from one town to the next that this was 'an authentic country' band and 'a real country band', like the classic honky-tonk bands who all but vanished decades ago.

What is most interesting about the Outlaws is their uncanny ability to blend traditional styles into a fresh, contemporary alt-country sound - styles which include bluegrass, old-time, Cajun, Irish, Tex-Mex, and honky-tonk. Empty mansions is a must-have CD in every hardcore country fan’s collection, and it is available in all major record outlets, fine music shops, and at all Outlaws gigs.

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The Outlaws appear at the following venues in August 2007: [list now superseded by dates published in post of 15 August; see BIB calendar and calendar archive]

Management: Kevin McCooey, 042-974-0612 or 087-249-2495.

Contact: Tom Hanway
043-46340 or 087-610-1712
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