The McCabes Band

I hope you have a great Christmas wherever you are and a happy new year!

I’m looking forward to getting back into the swing of things in the US. If you happen to be in Vegas last week in January you can find myself and Tony de Marco (fiddler) at RiRa Irish pub. After that I’ll be up in New York and will post my gigs on the calendar page here.

don’t forget to check out my new album ‘That’s The Story’ on the discography page. It has plenty of new songs, including one about playing the bars of NYC!

Also you can find my new novel ‘A Busker’s Guide To Paris’ on the books page. My next novel, ‘New York Stories’, which I actually wrote ten years ago, will be up soon. Somebody asked me how come I don’t write about New York. Well, I do or should I say, did! There are plenty of real life stories in my New York novel but I’ll say more about that when it’s out.

My new song ‘You Are My Everything’ is getting plenty of worldwide airplay at the moment, from WFUV in New York, to the BBC Radio, to Midland Radio in Ireland and many others. You can hear it above if you like just click on above. All my songs are available individually as downloads on cdbaby.com for which there is a link on the discography page on this website.

Hope to see you at one of my upcoming gigs!

Yes folks I have been busy during my stay here in Sweden! I just published my new novel ‘A Busker’s Guide To Paris’ last week on lulu.com. The title says it all: it’s an account of a period that I spent playing music on the streets, pubs and underground of Paris a few years back, when busking was all the rage there. If you’re interested in that type of thing, the book, I have to say, is a must for you! There is also a description of various Irish pubs,  where a lot of the action in the novel takes place. Yes it’s an Irish Scene novel! The New York novel is on the way. I wrote it two years ago. Just haven’t gotten around to publishing it yet. Maybe I’ll do that next.

My new album is called ‘That’s The Story’. It’s my first recording in six years; it has seven new songs plus three re-workings of songs I used to do with The McCabes. Gabriel Donohue did a great job producing this album. Gabriel is a great artist, as anyone who has seen him live knows. He plays every instrument you can think of and also tours as a solo opening act with The Chieftans! The new album is for sale on CDbaby.com and there is a link to cdbaby.com through this website. Just go to the albums page. If the album is not up now it will be tomorrow or the day after. Happy Listening, folks, and happy reading if you decide you want to read about some Paris adventures. The e-book, for those who are moving with the times, is also available for $2.99 on lulu.com

I play solo this Saturday, December 3 at the Irish Osterhof on Humlegardgatan in Stockholm. 8.30pm!

Sat, Nov 5: Irish Osterhof, Humlegardsgatan 6, Stockholm. With Daniel Grahn on accordion! 9pm.

My thanks to all the folks who came out to my ‘hour with Sean McCabe’ at the Navan library in Ireland. I read extracts mostly from my first book ‘A Good Deed & Other Stories’ and sang a wee song or two! The stories in this book are mostly set in my fictional town of Baile, which bears some slight resemblance to Navan, in particular the street I grew up in, Brews Hill. The stories are set in the early eighties, my time ‘of earliest youth’, to quote Wordsworth! It was fun to see lot of familiar faces in the library from that part of the town. One person told me that on my street alone there are only three houses left with the same people in it as when I was a youngster running up and down. Only three! How quickly times change. I thought there were at least four or five.

I also read an extract from ‘The Days’ my second novel, which is the sequel to ‘A Good Deed’, also set in the fictional town of Baile. The Navan library is a wonderful place, it always has been. I was reliably informed as a youngster that you could get any book at all printed in the English language there. I’m sure that’s still true. It’s a big enough building anyway. With libraries being closed down every day in England it was great to see how busy the place was the night I was there, and how central it is to the life of Navan. No small thanks to the great staff that run the place!

My new album ‘That’s The Story’ is out now. I am selling it physically at shows and also it will be available next week for ordering through this website, so please come back and check, if you’d like to have a copy. It’s my first CD in about six years and has seven new songs, as well as three new versions of older songs that I used to do with the band in bars and at festivals in the US.

If you’re in Sweden please come along this Saturday to the Irish Osterhof (address above) where I will be playing with Daniel Grahn.

Cheers,

Sean.