Editor’s Note: Basket House will be performing in Sound The Groove New York’s 21+/ SINGER SONGWRITER NIGHT | DROM NYC [NEW YORK, NY] on February, 26th 2020! Be sure to check them out, along with other amazing artists from the area! If you’d like to perform with Groove, contact us here.

BASKET HOUSE BAND www.baskethouseband.com
Basket House Band is a group of musicians and singers with vast experience and accomplishments in Irish traditional music, bluegrass, rock n roll, country and pop music. Each New York based member has a long history of accomplishments in all genres of music. The band was born out of the cauldron of Times Square Irish music venues demanding highly versatile musical acts with the ability to perform hundreds of rock, country and contemporary requests while keeping and Irish feel to the party with jigs and reels and Irish folk favourites.

PEADAR HICKEY
After serving his musical entertainment apprenticeship in Dublin’s Cultural Quarter – Temple Bar, Peadar Hickey (Ó hÍcí) arrived in New York City in 2010. Since then he has become Times Square’s resident bard based mainly in Tir na nÓg Times Sq and O’Donoghue’s Times Sq.

Although based in New York City, Peadar has traveled extensively throughout the US and Europe both as a solo artist and as part of various touring bands. As a member of The Young Wolfe Tones (2014-2018), Peadar performed at many of the biggest Irish festivals in the country including, Cleveland Irish Festival and Kansas City Irish Festival, while also having the honour of performing for The President of the United States and other dignitaries in March 2016. Other notable bands such as the Prodigals, The Mickey Finns and The Armagh Rhymers have all featured Peadar Hickey as a guest artist.

A former Dublin school teacher and scholar of the Irish language, Peadar began teaching a Gaeilge class for adults in Rocky Sullivan’s, Brooklyn in 2010, which continues to thrive today.

Since founding Basket House Band, Peadar has lead the band to some notable stages including Chicago Irish Festival and The Grand Ole Opry’s satellite venue – Opry City Stage. Peadar is a member of the music faculty at The Irish Arts Center in Manhattan teaching Guitar for Traditional Irish Accompaniment and has also represented the Arts Center as a solo artist at cultural events such as Porch Stomp 2019.

VONNIE QUINN
Former member of the Ireland’s National Youth Orchestra, Vonnie holds performance and teaching diplomas (LRSM, LTCL, and ALCM) in violin and piano and won an Irish Harp scholarship to the Royal Irish Academy of Music. While completing her BA at University College Cork, she studied advanced string playing with Greg Ellis and Irish traditional music with Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. Highlight performances since coming to the States including concerts at the Katharine Cornell Theater, Martha’s Vineyard (The Darren Maloney Band); The Cutting Room, NYC (Doobie Decibel System); a two-month run at The Irish Repertory Theater (Ernest in Love); Joe’s Pub (Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music); and festivals from Savannah, Georgia to Dunedin, Florida. Vonnie is a two-time World Champion for Irish Dancing in team events with Scoil Uí Nualláin and won Scór na nÓg in the Rock category (with an Irish translation of Hungry Eyes or ‘Súile Santacha’)

NOAH CHASE
Noah Chase is a true musical force of nature on the New York music scene and beyond. Founding member and leader of acclaimed group – Citigrass – Noah brings an authentic bluegrass sound to Basket House Band sessions both in his singing and mandolin and guitar playing.

Editor’s Note: Basket House will be performing in Sound The Groove New York’s 21+/ SINGER SONGWRITER NIGHT | DROM NYC [NEW YORK, NY] on February, 26th 2020! Be sure to check them out, along with other amazing artists from the area! If you’d like to perform with Groove, contact us here.