About Tim Browne

Tim Browne is a bouzouki player and singer. He was the house musician at the Alley Bar, Strand St., Kanturk, Co. Cork and has played there with many fine musicians since the mid 1980’s. He performed there every Saturday night for a number of years, recently giving up this session, citing managerial intransigence and acute lack of commitment being amongst the reasons he retired from it. He plays fiddle at Scully’s, Newmarket, Co. Cork at the Monday night session and works primarily as a session musician in Sheehan’s Killarney Grand Hotel, Co. Kerry, playing there on Thursday’s , Friday’s and Sunday’s throughout the year. He also travels and has played music and sang songs all over the world. Browne has busked in many places too and can relate tales of street and live performance in such diverse places as Salamanca Place in Hobart, Antwerp in Belgium, Los Olibos in Lima, Peru, Hsingang in the Bohai Gulf, China and the Seaman's club in Nampho in North Korea, to mention but a few. He has a huge repertoire of old songs and ballads and favours playing music from around his native area (Duhallow / Sliabh Luachra). Moses Bridge is the name of his band and they get together occasionally for gigs. He also plays, periodically with the traditional groups, The Monks of the Screw & The Monks of the Screw Trio and has recorded and toured with them. He also made a solo recording called “Mutiny in the County, Ceol as Dúthalla agus thart timpeall” in 2003. He recently released another solo recording, “Pull out the Choke “ which is a companion to a book which he has complied titled “Stories in Song Vol.1”, a miscellany of songs, ballads and anecdotes from the Barony of Duhallow.