| He comes
from an extremely musical and
talented family. His grandfather
Thomas Whyte was one of the
founder members of the famous
Ballinakill Ceili Band and his
aunt was the legendary fiddler
Aggie Whyte. His early CD
"Celtic Legend" is
still available on OpenEar.com.
On this CD Ger is playing
traditional Irish numbers by
flute and pipes. If you want to
purchase the Tara or Furry
Village CD's , you have no choice
but to visit a concert or a show.
The CD's are not available in
stores or online. Unfortunately!!
Gerard has toured
intensively with first Michael
Flatley's Lord of the Dance and
later the Feet of Flames Victory
Tour and was the musical
director. He wrote the opening
for Feet of Flames which is now
used in Tara as Warrior Training
School.
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Ger has also
recently worked with Michael
Flatley on Michael's new flute CD
of which the releasedate is yet
still unknown.
One of his
talented sisters, Máirin Fahy,
soloist fidler of Riverdance, has
just released a CD called Máirin
and Ger has composed three of the
numbers for her.
The Irish Musical
Tara is an unknown masterpiece
with an ancient Irish story,
combined with hartbreaking music
and strong, powerful rock. During
the show, Furry Village - Ger's
band, gives away a couple of
terrific solo numbers.Magh Seola
, one of his compositions
recorded by the Boston Pops
Orchestra spent 3 months at the
top of the US classical charts.
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