Irish Tenors Tickets - Not Simply a Knock-Off of Their Mediterranean Counterparts!

On the contrary, these 'tenors' equally impressed with their talent. Made up of singers John McDermott, Ronan Tynan, and Anthony Kearns, the Irish Tenors actually came together in 1998 for the sake of Ireland's giant Royal Dublin Society, accompanied by a 60-piece orchestra and the makings for a monumental television recording.

Irish Tenors Tickets - The Music of the Tenors

Some of the favorites coming from the Irish Tenors were 'When Irish Eyes Are Smiling' and 'Only Our Rivers Run Free.' It began a craze for Irish beauty and music unlike anything ever before, and definitely hailed the beginning of Ireland not just on a new age type of music, but a classical one.

Irish Tenors Tickets - Where They Came From

The EMI Music label took on McDermott, originally, signing him to a multi-album contract, and Tynan wasn't even a singer originally. Kearns was already a leading lyric tenor for the English Light Opera Company, but when the Irish Tenors came to be, an explosion of classical Irish songs made it very clear that there was something there in terms of talent -- such as albums like Home for Christmas in 1999, Live in Belfast in 2000, Ellis Island in 2001, We Three Kings in 2003, and Heritage in 2004.