Jay Snyder.

I work as a live sound engineer. I started working with bands in 1997. The first band I worked with were a 3-piece outfit called "Five Miles High". We had a small four channel PA. I then moved to a 5-piece called "Hush", I got a studio master 16-channel desk and picked up a set of lights from the Point Depot in Dublin. I left "Hush" in 2000 and went to work with "Fractured", a 4-piece from Enniskillen, I used their rig. I did the sound for them when we played for Bill Clinton in 2000. I then moved to the states. While I was there I worked with a 4-piece called " The People of Earth". In 2003 I moved back to Fermanagh. In Dec 2003 I got a drum kit and have started to learn to play the drums.

Lynda Beatty.

Drumming.

Spring 93. Rickety drum kit appears in spare room. Start learning to play, accompanying Rodney.

Sept 93. Have stroke and drumming is great physio!

Continue playing and learning and by 1995 have bought a kit and some recording equipment in order to make a start on our first CD recording of Rodney's original songs; as "The Church of the Black Sun". The search for a bass player in ongoing so live gigs started in'96 with one guy, and went on until summer '03 with another.

1^st CD 2001/May18th – "No Need To Run"

2^nd CD 2001/Nov12th – www.thechurchofthheblacksun.com

3^rd CD 2002/July30th – ""Blue"

Have played in Belfast, Sligo and Fermanagh.

Got radio airplay on RTE, BBC, Downtown and Today FM.

Have done radio interviews.

Booked by Fermanagh District Council to do local area gigs in town centres and parks in Enniskillen, also local pubs, hotels etc.

I have taught drums, done session work and done drum tech at Black Sun studio.

Non-drumming info.

Mid 80's, sang lead and backing vocals in a small local band

Played percussion with "Fermanagh Blackbirds" on live TV BBCNI.

e-mail: arney@screaming.net

Phone: 07890 300623

Mary Conlon

I have been loving and collecting all types of music since I was very young. I started to have a few lessons on the tin whistle/keyboard/piano/guitar and piano accordion but have stuck to keyboard, picking up and learning stuff by ear.

My biggest experience was the time I did the "Wider Horizons Music", Portadown/Monaghan Partnership, going to Toronto (2000), picking up tips and just having a wicked time. I did a gig with my pals and brothers band called "The Argonauts", learned about the music business, setting up a PA and lighting system, publishing a cover for our CD etc. I wrote a song but unfortunately did not get it on the CD. It was the first song I had ever written, so by that time I could not stop writing and composing songs as they come so easy to me now.

I did a few performances at local concerts and I won 'Best Individual' for my music at the Cavan College Concert while I did a course there. I also did a performing arts course at Mifit College in Monaghan, while there I helped to operate the lights for a Jack L concert, which was totally wicked. That was when I also met Gloria; she is a country and western singer who had a hit with "One day at a Time" a long time ago. We are still friends and ever since she has helped with my music, I also got to perform with her once. I am also in our church choir trying to improve my voice and boost my self-confidence.

I have about 500 tapes and over 300 CDs that I have collected over the years; I also have a lot of music/film videos and DVDs. I would be lost without them. So far I have written and composed 50 songs.

I still have a lot to learn in music and I am very willing to do so in order to make my dreams come true.

Details: Mary Conlon, Cloncorrick, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh.

e-mail: marydoll77_685@hotmail.com

Rodney Ternan

85-86 Managed "Shotgunwedding". (No, you haven't heard of them)

• Formed "The Skinflints" some demo recording and various local gigs.

• Put together a 3-piece writing/recording band.

• Kept writing on my own, Lynda started to drum. Experimented with recording sounds and styles.

• Looked for bass/keyboard player to provide extra 'colour'. Despite lots of haystacks, found few needles we could hold on to.

Aug-97 Car crash means I had to stop singing as I was passing out.

Aug-99 Recovered enough from crash to dabble again with music and was working on a CD when I got leukaemia. "NICE"

Late 99 Wrote songs with the intention of finishing the CD. (In between chemo)

18^th May 2001 – Released 1^st 13-track CD.

June 2001- Joined by bassist and began rehearsals for gigging and began writing 2^nd CD.

Nov 2001- 2^nd CD released. Started to play some local gigs.

Jan 2002 – Began work on 3^rd CD.

July 2002 – Released 3^rd CD.

July 02 – Aug 2003 – Continued to gig locally in North and South including the Duke of York, Rosetta and the Odyssey.

Aug 2003 – Bass player moved on, Lynda and I decided to focus on writing 4^th CD.

Dec 2003 – Lynda gets cancer. Everything on hold.

May 2004 – Resume recording 4^th CD in between chemo and music workshop.

I'm sure there is more…

Brenda Gunn

For the last ten years my one woman show has been touring venues throughout Ireland and the UK. I do my own material as well as songs/pieces from an extensive and diverse repertoire. I devise and provide all keyboard, guitar and instrumental accompaniment.

1992 - I assisted UTV in the advertising campaign for the Northern Ireland Busking Championships, due to my status as a previous winner of the event.

1994 - Whilst residing in Vancouver, I featured on Canadian TV in a series about international talent. I sang and was interviewed about my musical influences and life in Northern Ireland.

1999 - I performed with Christy Hennessy during the "Rose Of Tralee" festival, fimled by RTE Network 2.

1999 - I was a guest on the George Jones Millennium concert in the Ulster Hall, Belfast. I sang two of my own songs.

2001 - Appeared on BBC's "The John Daly Show" to promote my CD release. I directed the studio musicians in their accompaniment to my singing.

I have a BA in Performing Arts from Middlesex University, a BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts, an A'level in media studies and I have recently attended a course in Acting for Screen. I have reached grade 8 with my singing, grade 6 with my piano playing and grade 3 with my flute. I am also an accomplished guitarist, keyboard and tin whistle player.

Apart from being a full time musician, my other passion is acting. I have appeared in productions with the Archway Theatre Co., The Lakeland Players and St. Michael's College. These productions to name only a few included, "Blood Brothers" where I played mother, "Les Miserables" as Eponine, "This is Comic Thrust" as Jane.

In my spare time I have completed a six week horse riding training course, a Bronze Medallion in swimming and the ECDL computer training course.

I have also had success as the Champion Irish Ballad Singer and the Ulster Champion Disco Dancer.

Gemma Robinson

I am twenty four years old and I live in county Fermanagh. My first performance at one year old stunned my parents, my rendition of Happy Birthday went down a storm considering that I had not yet grown teeth!

My dad began as a musician himself, which helped nurture my new found talent and by the age of six I was the proud owner of my own guitar. I have studied the guitar since then and continue to do so.

My main influences are Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain and the styles that interest me the most are Blues, Rock and Indie.

My school years were spent learning to play the French horn and violin. I was a member of the school choirs and performed in various plays and concerts. By the age of fifteen I was playing guitar in the school band alongside fellow classmate Sinead Quinn of BBC's Fame academy. I also play various instruments, including piano, autoharp, drums and the tin whistle.

When I finished my schooling I took part in a range of different music courses. I completed the New Deal For Musicians and the Princes Trust Sound Live recreational course in the Nerve Centre in Derry. I have just recently finished the RDC workshop in Kesh.

My aims for the future are to form a band and also to develop my own original material.