Sharon Shannon is an Irish musician, best known for her work with the button accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her self-titled debut album, in 1991, was the best-selling album of traditional Irish music ever released there.
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Sharon Shannon is an Irish musician, best known for her work with the button accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her self-titled debut album, in 1991, was the best-selling album of traditional Irish music ever released there. She has worked with Jackson Browne, the band Coolfin, Dónal Lunny, Moya Brennan, Kirsty MacColl, Christy Moore, Sinéad O’Connor, Liam O’Maonlai, Mundy and John Prine.
She won the lifetime achievement award at the 2009 Meteor Awards. She continues to perform as welfare music and perform with The Galway Girl with Mundy in Ireland in May 2014. It was released on 26 May 2014 as a single with Dawn Penn as vocalist, which also features The Lee Skarang Orchestra as a backing band for the live version of ‘Galway Girl’ The single was released as a digital download on 26 April 2014.
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