Dunmore singer gets to jam out with Kingfishr
Backstage dream come true
A NORTH Galway teenager who gigs in Tuam sang the hit song ‘Killeagh’ backstage with Kingfishr after the band’s recent sell-out concert in Castlebar.
Cillian Coleman, originally from Dunmore and living in Cloonfad, has performed in all of the pubs in Tuam. He has been gigging in venues in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon over the past five months with his friend Daire Caulfield from Ballyhaunis.
The name of their act is ‘CillDaire’. The pair attended a Kingfishr concert in Manchester recently and afterwards got to meet band members Eddie Keogh, Eoin Fitzgibbon and Eoghan McGrath.
“We told them what we did for a living and that we were gigging. They invited us to go backstage with them after one of their Castlebar concerts,” offered Cillian, who is the son of Norma Coleman and Robert Kenny from Dunmore.
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