About Seamaisin

The group Seamaisin (pronounced HAY-machine) was formed in the late 1980's by a group of musicians in the vicinity of South Bend, Indiana, most of whom were associated in one way or another with the University of Notre Dame. Seamaisin performs a variety of genres of Irish and Scottish traditional music, ranging from dance tunes to original and traditional ballads to rowdy drinking songs.

The Seamaisin website is hosted by Dr. John Kennedy.

Seamaisin's first album, Joseph Harvey's Fiddle was Left In the Rain, was released in 1991, and is available in CD and on tape. (For ordering information go to the Seamaisn site.) The artists featured on this cd are (in alphabetical order):

• John Collins (whistle)
• Tim Fischer (guitar, mandolin)
• Steve Horst (cello)
• John Kennedy (vocals, whistle, bodrhan, guitar)
• Michael McGettric (whistle)
• Eileen McLane (vocals, guitar)
• Rosie McCormack (vocals, whistle)

1997 saw the release of an album of music performed in live performance by Seamaisin featuring original members Eileen McLane, John Kennedy and Tim Fischer plus fiddler Teresa Ramsby and harper/singer Mary Brannock.

An eagerly-awaited second studio album (yet unnamed) is currently in production at I'll Learn to Fly Studios in South Bend.

Members of Seamaisin are now distributed from Paris, France (McGettrick) to Portland, Oregon (Fischer), with stops in between in Connecticut (Horst), Ohio (Brannock), Bloomington, IN (Ramsby), South Bend (Kennedy, McCormack), Niles, Michigan (McLane), and Chicago (Collins). The majority of those who have recorded with the band are now full-fledged academicians, making this one of the most highly PhD'ed Irish bands in history!