A Busker's Guide To Paris

Name: A Busker's Guide To Paris
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Two friends go to Paris on a busking holiday. They discover a vibrant underground, music scene, based around cafes, metros and Irish pubs. They bump into all sorts of 'outsider' characters, a desire to play music or write novels being the one thing that connects everyone... A sort of European 'On The Road', A Busker's Guide captures the reader from the first page, and is full of anecdotes from the international celtic underground... 'McCabe's gentle recollections spring eternal'- The irish Voice, New York.

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Publication Date: Dec 10, 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9781105339578
Category: Fiction
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Sean McCabe

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Keywords

busker's novel celtic underground

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Sean McCabe is originally from County Meath in Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He lived in Paris for a couple of years and that was where he started getting involved in the Irish music scene. He co-formed a band there with some busking friends which was called 'The Prodigal Sons'. Some of the members of that band are still active on the Irish music scene, all over the place. Sean moved to New York in 1994 and continued playing music there. He formed a band and called it 'The McCabes'. The McCabes were very prominent on the US Irish music scene, and recorded four albums, one of them being the now cult favourite : 'live at Paddy Reilllys'. One of the highlights of the McCabes' existence was a performance in Shea Stadium in 2003! When Sean moved for a year to Sweden in 2005 he really got down to some writing. One of the first novels he wrote was 'The Days'. 'The Days' is the story of a teenage rebellion in a small midland Irish town. Sean conitnues to write...

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