WLD

I gather this particular John Kelly is based in Wigan.

There are a lot of John Kelly's in this neck of the woods, so the name may cause some confusion. There are 3 generations of fiddlers by that name in one family. John Kelly Senior (RIP) was from County Clare, but lived in Capel Street in Dublin for many years and was a member of Sean O Riada's Ceoltóirí Chualann. His son and grandson (both named John) are both Dublin based fiddler's. His other son James, another fiddler, lives in the US and has a number of CDs to his name.

There is also a John Kelly from Roscommon but living in Ennis who plays flute. His brother Alan is a well known piano accordeon who was playing in Eddie Reader's band at least until recently.

There are probably others who I haven't thought of yet, both John and Kelly are well known names around here.

Aplologies for the thread drift, but I'm sure others will make the same mistake I did in thinking this was a thread about one of the Irish based JKs.