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Michelle Mulhaire (vocals,guitar,percussion)     

Michelle was born to music. Her grandfather, the great Tommy Mulhaire, renowned traditionalist whose compositions are known to this day by purveyors of Irish music everywhere, introduced and instilled a life-long love for music in Michelle from an early age. This was further enhanced by her dad Brendan Mulhaire, whose long career in the music business, particularlly during the showband era in Ireland expanded her tastes beyond the traditional genre. The result of which is the incredibly talented Michelles outstanding ability as a drummer, guitarist and pianist, not to mention her talents as a singer - equally comfortable with a jazz melody as she is singing pop, rock and roll or Irish ballads.

Michelle lives in Galway city where she played drums and sang with Eamonn Murray. The Quays described  ‘Eamon’Michelle’ as ‘The Biggest Little Band in Ireland’. She also played keyboards with ‘Bandstand’, a seven piece big-band, was former lead guitarist with ‘Belladonna’, an all-girl rock band and is Musical Director for ‘The Mark Roberts Band’.
A third generation professional musician, she has worked and toured all over the world with Carmel Dempsey, one of Irelands leading entertainers. Michelle joined 'The Bridies' in March 2004 for a sell out series of concerts in Las Vegas and due to the success of these Shows, she has since become 'The Bridies' full time drummer and lead singer complimenting perfectly this dynamic all female ensemble. Michelles’ debut album ‘Can I Call on You’, features a wide and varied selection of her amazing vocal abilities, drumming and guitar talents, and is available from the bridies web page,  along with 4 and 9     which she co-produced in conjunction with Les Comacho (Fleetwood Mac).
She along with the other Bridies wrote, arranged and recorded The Bridies second CD, '13' which they spent the first three months of 2005 composing in Las Vegas. When not working Michelle plays a mean round of golf, enjoys fine wines, and loves to visit exotic countries where she can scuba-dive in warm tropical waters.

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