Paddy Mór is a Galway native who cut his teeth gigging
on the pub circuit of Irish America.
From there, he returned to Galway where his career took
a new lease on life - as a busker.
Since then, he's been spending half his days busking in Galway,
and half his days gigging in Boston!
He is also the host of The new Podcast Ireland and Beyond, check out IrelandandBeyondPodcast.com
"As soon as I picked up the guitar, I put down the hurl - and never looked back..."
Paddy Mór is from Moycullen, Co. Galway; a rich sporting village in the west of Ireland. His brothers have won titles in the All-Ireland, Connacht, and County final competitions across various sports including Handball, Basketball, Hurling, and Gaelic Football.
While sport seemed like a natural fit for only a Paddy Beag
(at the time) the music was calling...
"The ballads were always calling me, I just wasn't listening..."
In his early years, his parents exposed him to ballads and rebel songs. Everything from Christy Moore, to The Wolfe Tones, and the Irish Rovers too!
He never was interested. It was his parents' music. He wanted to find his own musical path and as such, it wasn't until his teenage years that he started to take ballad singing more seriously.
One day, he was spotted singing a cover of The Pogues'
"A Pair of Brown Eyes" - this video circulated online, one thing lead to another, and Paddy Mór was born...
"I make music for the ordinary folk, misfits, & underdogs"
The snowball effect started growing rapidly once he played his first gig at an Irish pub in Boston, MA.
Although an independent artist, not bound to any label: Paddy Mór has made leaps and bounds as a solo artist.
Notable career highlights include: