This tour will visit counties Donegal, Mayo, Galway & Clare.
Sims Delaney-Potthoff, Harmonious Wail’s founder, leader and mandolinist , credits Jethro Burns with the band’s unique, enticing style of mandolin-driven gypsy-jazz.
Sims studied for seven years with Burns, the legendary jazz mandolinist, laying the foundation for Harmonious Wail’s acoustic string sound. He furthered his studies with Matt Glaser at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, honing his skills while immersing himself in the “gypsy” music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli (Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Bireli Lagrene, Duane Allman, David Grisman, and Louis Armstrong are also on his list of musical heroes). Sims also plays a 1937 Gibson Tenor Guitar (tuned as an octave mandolin), sings, writes and arranges for the Wail. He founded the group in 1987.
Vocalist Maggie Delaney-Potthoff is a captivating performer. Equally at home scatting over a bebop tune, soaring on a solo, or blending with the Wail’s tight vocal harmonies, she delivers both powerhouse tunes and ballads with confidence and ease. Her sensual, sinuous movements (a product of her background in dance and theatre) and her use of a cardboard box played with brushes as a drum add to the charm she exudes onstage.
Stephen Fearing
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Moors & McCumber
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Kate Campbell
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Chuck Brodsky
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Joe Crookston
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Willy Porter
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Cathy Jordan
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Buddy Mondlock & Mike Lindauer
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Ellis Paul
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Dan Sebranek
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Niccole Blaze
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Moors & McCumber
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Harmonious Wail
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Chuck Brodsky
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Tom Kimmel
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Willy Porter
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Jan Lucas
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Joe Jencks
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Mouths of Babes
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