CPI Archive 2009: Kilrush siblings Laura and Emmet O’Gara will represent the west when the live final of the All Ireland Talent Show comes to RTÉ next month. Andrew Hamilton chats to Lilac Blues singer Laura about cutting her musical teeth in west Clare and their steely commitment to playing their own music.
THE dreaded Leaving Cert was all that entertained Laura O’Gara’s mind when she and her family upped sticks and left Kilrush in 1999. A keen musician, she and her brother Emmet had learned to sing and play in the classrooms and halls of west Clare. Little did they realise that when they left Clare, they would - for a time at least - leave the music behind them too. “There used to be a lot of music organised in a room over the post office in Kilrush. People used to come with their drum kits and guitars and just start playing together and teaching each other how to play. That’s where I first started playing guitar and where Emmet first started playing drums,” she said.
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