Hailing from the Irish music mecca that is Ennis, County Clare the ‘Socks sound’ came as a bi-product of three friendsplaying in pubs together, learning from one another and having fun. Analbum was the inevitable next step-their first unassuming entry into the world of Irish musicrecordings. Fast forward one year later and the album had won ‘Album of the Year’ from theLive Ireland music awards and the band scooping up the award for ‘Best New Band’from theIrish Music Association.Five years and two more multi-award winning studio albums later, the band have headlined allof the major Irish music festivals in Americaand have branched into the broader world musicscene, performing at the likes of the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield Kansas, the Tønder folkmusic festival in Denmark and alongside such acts as Sting, Aretha Franklin and Rod Stewart atthe world famousNew Orleans Jazz Festival to name but a few.