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Biography
Pól MacAdaim is
33 years old and was born in Belfast. He first became involved in playing
music at the age of 9. Through the years he has learned to play in a wide
range of styles including Folk, Appalachian, Cajun, Rock, Soul and Contemporary.
He is also skilled in a variety of instruments ranging from tin whistles,
Traditional Irish flute, Low whistles, Uilleann pipes, harmonicas, guitars
(acoustic/Bass), Mandolin, and the Tenor banjo to Bodhran and
general percussion in rhythm section. He has also developed vocals in
backing and lead modes.
Pól began audio engineering 12 years ago and has been involved in
producing music for the last seven years. He has played alongside some of the world's finest
pop musicians from bands like Shakespears Sister and Seal as well as
enduring musicians in the Folk scene such as Delores Keane, Stockton's Wing, Brush Shiels, Calico, The Wolfetones, The Dublin City Ramblers and Bacaan. He recently shared a bill with Davy Spillane & Kevin Burke, Christy O'Leary & Bert Deivert, Gerry O'Connor and the Moya Brennan band(Clannad).
Pól tours throughout Europe playing mainly traditional Irish music and has
also toured in America. His debut solo album 'If we don't help them now' has been a great success, currently played in Radio stations worldwide. His second album 'Internationale' has just been released earlier this year, both albums address
various social issues and topics of historical and cultural relevance. The albums feature
Patrick Martin (Former Riverdance instrumentalist), champion Uillean/Highland piper and Tin Whistle player.
2002 saw the launch of Pól's acting debut in the film The Magdalene Sisters directed by the legendary Peter Mullan (Actor
of the Year, Cannes Festival) from PFP films Scotland. The film was
premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Golden Lion award at the
2002 Venice Film Festival, as well as winning top prize in the Canada film festival. Pól was responsible for the musical arrangements and organising the band that perform during the opening scenes of the filnm. Pól can be seen playing
a Bodhran duet with an Irish priest at the beginning of the film. The film addresses
the totalitarian regime created and maitained by the Church in Ireland as well as the systematic physical, sexual and mental abuse of women carried out by members of the Church during their incarcaration in the Megdalene Laundries
Ireland, which continued until 1995. It is based on the accounts of three girls who
were forced to go there.
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