Tommy Peoples

Tommy Peoples has been a member of well known traditional Irish music groups, including 1691 and The Bothy Band as well as performing solo since the late 1960s. He plays with a unique virtuosic technique in the Donegal fiddle style. After moving to Dublin in the 1960s, where he was employed as a policeman, he subsequently moved to Clare and married Mary Linnane, daughter of Kitty Linnane, long-time leader of the Kilfenora C?il? Band. He now resides in his home village of St Johnston. His daughter Siobh?n Peoples is a noted fiddler in her own right.