On the Front Row with Keith Harkin

Although AETN recorded the Keith Harkin performance, we were unable to secure reproduction rights and therefore, there is no CD or DVD of the program available. AETN has made the program available FREE to all other public television stations through NETA.  They should call and ask their local station to air the program.

“Keith is the blond, scruffy member of the band,” AETN Director of Production Carole Adornetto said. “He has joined AETN in the studio twice with his most memorable visit last December.

“In Ireland, Keith is a successful solo performer and has been for some time. He is really so talented and the show is phenomenal.”

Harkin describes his musical likes and influences as “anything with a bit of heart and soul, Tom Waites, Neil Young, The Beatles, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes.”

On returning back to Derry from a recording session in London in 2005, Harkin heard about the auditions for Celtic Thunder and decided to chance calling into the auditions, just as they were finishing. He auditioned and was invited then and there to attend the final auditions in Dublin, ultimately being selected as one of the five soloists for the Celtic Thunder show.