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Article: A family act with a dramatic flair.(Entertainment)(Leahy, an all-sibling group from Canada, freely mixes influences)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 23, 2004
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Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard
For Leahy, the eight-piece family act from Lakefield, Ontario, country living comes naturally.
"We are country people," Angus Leahy, a fiddler and the youngest member of the group, says by phone from the family's cattle ranch. "I guess it's just in our blood to be out of the city.
`It's not that we don't like the city. We like to visit."
A frenetic swirl of dance and multitextured music that includes Irish and Scottish influences - not to mention rock, folk, country, classical and pop - the Leahy stage show comes to the Hult Center on Wednesday.
Like the other members of the group, ...