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Article: LEAHY REINVENTS FAMILY TRADITION CANDIAN SIBLINGS BLEND THEIR ROOTS AND TALENTS FOR A NEW, BALANCED ACT.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 27, 1998
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Byline: Michael Mehle Rocky Mountain News Popular Music Writer
At a Leahy performance, the fiddling is furious and the step-dancing a meticulous blur of 18 feet. The Canadian combo is tight and in exacting lock step, as if the nine members had been practicing together all their lives.
Which, of course, they have.
The members of Leahy are four brothers and five sisters, ranging in age from 18 to 32. What's more, they grew up on a farm in the middle of Ontario, Canada, where their lives were devoted to little more than music and chores. Their father taught them all how to fiddle as soon as they were old enough to hold the instrument, and their ...