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MORGAN O KANE TRIO

Brooklyn based O’Kane’s music comes from the mountains. A mix of Appalachian Folk, Bluegrass and Zydeco all played with an intensity and passion that is hard to resist. The Banjo is O’Kane’s weapon of choice and he uses it along side his gruff vocals to take you on a journey into his world of characters and stories from the flip side of America. While Morgan O’Kane clearly knows his way around the old tunes, this ain’t no revival – he is more interested in creating his own, helped by the virtuoso band of New York City’s Dobro genius, Zeke Healy, the one-and-only Ferd Moyse IV on fiddle (Hackensaw Boys). He has released albums on Dollartone Records entitled “Nine Lives” (in 2010) and “Pendulum” (in 2011). The third full-length recent album, “The One They Call The Wind”, illuminates O’Kane’s inspiration, and it’s par for the course. He not only talks about what he loves and what he’s passionate about but what he won’t stand for and what he can’t stand. Morgan is also in the film “The Porchlight Sessions”, which documents bluegrass in America. He also created the soundtrack for the documentary film “Low Coal”, which addresses the coal mining industry in Appalachia. When he is not on tour, he plays in the subway and on the street.

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