Biography
Manus McGuire · Fiddle Player
Biography
Manus McGuire is an Irish fiddle player who has for many years been involved in performing, recording, teaching and, in more recent times, composition. Originally from Sligo and now resident in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, he grew up in a rich musical environment in the North West of Ireland and, together with his brother Seamus, was ideally placed to carry on a fiddle tradition made legend by Michael Coleman, James Morrison, Paddy Killoran and Lad O'Beirne.
As a recording artist, he has recorded solo fiddle albums, duo fiddle albums with his brother Seamus, and a number of CDs with bands Buttons and Bows, Moving Cloud, Brock McGuire Band, Full Tilt and East West Fiddles.
He is honoured to have won a number of prestigious fiddle awards such as the 2006 Male Irish Traditional Musician of the Year in the U.S. by the Irish American News in Chicago. As well as performing with 'Buttons and Bows', 'Full Tilt' and East West Fiddles, these days he is involved in teaching fiddle both at intermediate and advanced levels. He is also a founding member of Secret Sauce, a new quartet exploring the shared roots of Irish and Québécois folk music.
Manus McGuire
Press
"Exudes class from first to last note played. Variety, virtuosity and vitality are the lasting impressions created by this recording."
Earle Hitchner, on Fiddlewings — Irish Echo / Wall Street Journal
"The buyer is getting in on not only a wonderful piece of work, but a musician at the peak of his powers."
Bill Margeson, on Saffron and Blue — Irish American News
On Stage
💬 Testimonials
Secret Sauce is a jewel of transatlantic musicianship, uncluttered by folksy blarney or emigrant sentimentality — a new and original departure that builds a creative alliance between two cultures that have long shared music, song and dance across the Atlantic.
Prof. Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal"Secret Sauce" is exactly what they have — combining musicians most trad music lovers will have heard in other projects to form the ultimate crossover band. The album is excellent, and they're a whole lot of fun to see live.
Graham Lindsey Ottawa-based folk musician and composer