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RUGGEDWOOD

Ruggedwood are a five piece folk/pop band from midlands Ireland, made up of Jerome Scully, Ronan Bell, Jonathan Byrne, Shane Brennan and Geoff Scully. The band have recently released their first single entitled ‘Warmth’ and are currently in the process of releasing an EP. Ruggedwood play venues all around Ireland both in a supporting and headlining role.

Ruggedwood were formed back in 2013 for a school music competition called ‘Battle of The Bands’ in the school where the five Tullamore local, teenagers attended. Originally with only three members (guitar, tenor banjo and fiddle) the band grew to include a cello and percussion. Now a five piece band they went on to win the competition blowing the judges away. From this a local pub owner gave them their first gig which launched the 5 into the local public eye. The band evolved to switch the cello for a double bass and electric bass and the tenor banjo to a five string this embraced a more folk sound.

Following this Ruggedwood secured a spot in the line-up to ‘The Johnny Keenan International Banjo Festival’. The band went from strength adding to they're resumé with performances at The Tullamore Show, Teen Aware (teen musical festival) and The Marquee Drumlish sharing the stage with Mundy and Nathan Carter and Hermitage Green. Also playing lots of bars and venues around Ireland in between trying to build a reputation.

A week long London tour in June 2014 brought these five young men to five music venues in the heart London. It was here that the boys wrote a lot of they're original songs including their first single Warmth.

Ruggedwood have aspirations to try and get there own music to a wider audience and hope this will open many doors which will hopefully lead to a bigger, brighter future!

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Ruggedwoods first single is available to download at:

- iTunes - Amazon

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MediaMike333 (talk) 21:28, 7 September 2014 (UTC)