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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name                = Patrick Street
| image               = Kevin Burke.jpg
| caption             = [[Kevin Burke (musician)|Kevin Burke]] of Patrick Street in 2007
| image_size          =
| background          = group_or_band
| origin              = Dublin, Ireland
| genre               =  [[Irish folk music|Irish folk]], [[Folk music|folk]]
| years_active        = 1986–2014
| associated_acts     = [[The Bothy Band]]<br />[[Sweeney's Men]]<br />[[Planxty]]<br />[[De Dannan]]<br />[[Van Morrison]]<br />[[The House Band]]<br />[[Battlefield Band]] 
| current_members     = [[Kevin Burke (musician)|Kevin Burke]]<br />[[Andy Irvine (musician)|Andy Irvine]]<br />[[Arty McGlynn]]<br />[[John Carty (musician)|John Carty]]
| past_members        = [[Mícheál Ó Domhnaill]]<br />[[Gerry O'Beirne]]<br />[[Dónal Lunny]]<br />[[Bill Whelan]]<br />[[Declan Masterson]]<br />James Kelly<br />[[Brendan Hearty]]<br />[[Jackie Daly]]<br />[[Ged Foley]]
}}
'''Patrick Street''' is an Irish folk group founded by [[Kevin Burke (musician)|Kevin Burke]] (formerly of [[The Bothy Band]]) on [[fiddle]], [[Andy Irvine (musician)|Andy Irvine]] ([[Sweeney's Men]], [[Planxty]]) on [[mandolin]], [[Irish bouzouki|bouzouki]], harmonica and vocals, [[Jackie Daly]] ([[De Dannan]]) on button [[accordion]], and [[Arty McGlynn]] ([[Van Morrison]]) on guitar.

Other members were added at various times: Ged Foley ([[The House Band]], [[Battlefield Band]]) who held the tenure on guitar for many years, [[Bill Whelan]] on keyboards, [[Declan Masterson]] on [[uilleann pipes]] and keyboards, James Kelly on fiddle, Brendan Hearty on [[harmonium]], [[John Carty (musician)|John Carty]] on fiddle, [[flute]] and [[banjo]], and Enda Walsh on keyboards.

[[Dónal Lunny]], Whelan, and Walsh joined as producers on some albums.

==History==
In 1985, [[Andy Irvine (musician)|Andy Irvine]] joined up with fiddler [[Kevin Burke (musician)|Kevin Burke]] and guitarist [[Mícheál Ó Domhnaill]] (who had been gigging together around America for some time) and toured as a trio in the USA; when Ó Domhnaill wasn't available for some of the dates, guitarist/vocalist Gerry O'Beirne stepped in.<ref name="FR66">''Street Cred'', in ''Folk Roots'' No.66, December 1988.</ref>{{rp|34–35}}

"This tour was such fun and so successful that we decided to expand the outfit into a four-piece by adding [[Jackie Daly]]", Irvine wrote.<ref name="Irvine10">[http://www.andyirvine.com/bio/bio-10.html Andy Irvine's autobiography – Part 10.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005064751/http://www.andyirvine.com/bio/bio-10.html |date=5 October 2013 }}. Retrieved 26 March 2015</ref>

Originally billed on a 1986 American tour as "The Legends of Irish Music", they soon chose to call themselves Patrick Street.<ref name="FR66"/>{{rp|34}} The line-up for the band underwent several changes, but always included Burke, Irvine and Daly.

The guitar role, however, passed:
*from O'Beirne to [[Arty McGlynn]] – before the recording of their first album, ''[[Patrick Street (album)|Patrick Street]]'', which began in August 1986;<ref name="PS1SN">Sleeve notes from ''Patrick Street'', Green Linnet SIF 1071, 1986.</ref>
*from McGlynn to Ged Foley – after the band recorded their fourth album, ''[[All in Good Time (Patrick Street album)|All in Good Time]]'', released in 1993;<ref name="BestofPSSN">Sleeve notes from ''The Best of Patrick Street'', NECTAR NTMCD503, 1995.</ref>  
*back to McGlynn – when they resumed touring after the completion of their ninth album, ''[[On the Fly (album)|On the Fly]]'', released in 2007.<ref name="OntheFly">''Patrick Street – On the Fly'', Loftus Music LM002, 2007.</ref>

After Daly retired from Patrick Street, [[John Carty (musician)|John Carty]] joined on fiddle, flute and tenor banjo in time to record ''On the Fly''.<ref name="OntheFlySN">Sleeve notes from ''Patrick Street – On the Fly'', Loftus Music LM002, 2007.</ref>

Patrick Street was originally conceived as a part-time band, nevertheless they have recorded nine studio albums and one live album.

==Music for a Found Harmonium==
The song was included on the Green Linnet 20th Anniversary, 2-CD collection of various artists, issued in 1996.

The song can be heard in the second episode of [[Ric Burns|Ric Burn]]'s PBS series [[New York: A Documentary Film]], 1999.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Burns |first1=Ric |title=Order and Disorder |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6igzLaXWg&list=PLJFXONhbmjJrkzvMu7W1XOLLDSNtYAdBW&index=2 |website=Youtube |publisher=PBS |access-date=18 May 2025}}</ref>

In 2004, Patrick Street's rendition of "Music for a Found Harmonium" (originally composed by [[Simon Jeffes]] from [[The Penguin Cafe Orchestra]]), was used near the end of the movie ''[[Napoleon Dynamite original soundtrack|Napoleon Dynamite]]''. It was also used in the 1991 film ''[[Hear My Song]]''.

In 2008, the furniture company [[MFI (retailer)|MFI]] also used Patrick Street's cover of "Music for a Found Harmonium" as the soundtrack of a TV advertisement.<ref>[http://forum.handsupfortrad.co.uk/discussion/10653/patrick-street-and-mfi Patrick Street and MFI at Hands Up For Trad website]. Retrieved 26 March 2015</ref>

In 2009, [[Topic Records]] included "Music for a Found Harmonium" from ''[[Irish Times (album)|Irish Times]]'' as track fifteen on the first CD ("Disk one") of their 70-year anniversary boxed set ''[[Three Score and Ten#Disk one – . . . a selection of treasures from the Topic catalogue|Three Score and Ten]]''.

==Discography==

===Studio albums===
* ''[[Patrick Street (album)|Patrick Street]]'' (1986)
* ''[[No. 2 Patrick Street]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Irish Times (album)|Irish Times]]'' (1990)
* ''[[All in Good Time (Patrick Street album)|All in Good Time]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Cornerboys]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Made in Cork]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Street Life (Patrick Street album)|Street Life]]'' (2002)
* ''[[On the Fly (album)|On the Fly]]'' (2007)

===Live albums===
* ''[[Live from Patrick Street]]'' (1999)

===Compilations===
* ''[[The Best of Patrick Street]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Compendium: The Best of Patrick Street]]'' (2000)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.greenlinnet.com/patrick-street Patrick Street 'Artist page' at Green Linnet website]. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150408193051/http://adastra-music.co.uk/artists/patrick-street.html Patrick Street at Adastra website]. Retrieved 26 March 2015. 
*[http://www.herschelfreemanagency.com/patrick_street/patrick_street.html Patrick Street at Herschel Freeman Agency website]. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
*[https://musicbrainz.org/artist/622b1e36-4d4e-4744-80b3-056d4484a1ae?all=1 Patrick Street catalogue at MusicBrainz website]. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
*[http://www.kevinburke.com/ Kevin Burke – Official website]. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
*[http://www.andyirvine.com/index.html Andy Irvine – Official website]. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
*[http://www.kanturkarts.ie/pages/Jackie%20Daly/JackieDaly.htm Jackie Daly's biography at Kanturk Arts website]. Retrieved 26 March 2015.

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