Aoife Clancy (daughter of Bobby Clancy) and Robbie O'Connell performed at last year's festival with Donal Clancy as The Clancy Legacy. This year, they will be joined by fiddler George Keith as they concentrate on music from their own very successful solo careers. Aoife Clancy (pronounced "Eefa") brings a refreshing new voice to folk music, one that ranges from traditional Irish songs to ballads and contemporary folk. Aoife comes from the small town of Carrick-on-Suir, in Co Tipperary, where her musical career began at an early age. Her father Bobby Clancy placed a guitar in her hands at age ten, and by age fourteen was playing with her father in nearby pubs. She later moved to Dublin, where she studied drama at the Gaiety School of Acting. In 1995 Aoife was asked to join the acclaimed group Cherish the Ladies, one of the most sought-after Irish American groups in history. Since 1999, Aoife has pursued a solo career and clearly established herself as one of the divas of Irish and contemporary folk music. Robbie O'Connell was born in Waterford, Ireland and grew up in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. In 1977, he joined the Clancy Brothers with whom he recorded 3 albums. With the 1982 release of his first solo album, "Close to the Bone," Robbie emerged as an artist of major stature. Soon after, he began touring with Mick Moloney and Jimmy Keane, and also with Eileen Ivers and Seamus Egan in the Green Fields of America. In 1985, the trio's first album, "There Were Roses," was released. In 1987, the trio released "Kilkelly," the title track of which was voted "Best Album Track of the Year" in Ireland. Robbie has taught songwriting at the Augusta Heritage Arts Workshop in West Virginia and Gaelic Roots Week at Boston College and has earned international acclaim as a singer-songwriter by making it quite clear that there's more to being Irish than filling stereotypes.