The James Brothers

The James Brothers come from Australia and New Zealand, lands in which the traditional songs and tunes of the British Isles have evolved their own unique characteristics, like musical marsupials. And it’s these songs and tunes, along with several of their own making, that The James Brothers have brought together to play on their album launch tour.

James Fagan is best known as one half of Nancy Kerr and James Fagan (musically and maritally), but has also been spotted playing guitar and bouzouki in The Cara Dillon Band. Jamie McClennan is a Kiwi who found himself in a duo with Scotland’s BBC-award-winning Emily Smith (whom he also married) and has also been sighted on fiddle, whistle and guitar next to the likes of The Waifs, Beth Nielson Chapman, Brian Finnegan and John McCusker.