Celebrating a decade of Irish pub music,

by Victor McMullan of County Derry and the band Exorna!

	Front man Victor McMullan grew up singing with his friends in the pubs of Northern Ireland, and he understands that when people spend their hard-earned money on a night out, they want to have a good time; they want to laugh, sing, and be part of the show. For a decade, Exorna has been leaving people with smiles on their faces, playing music that is authentic and down to earth, singing songs loaded with humor and sentimentality, fiddlling tunes Irish dancers can dance to, and doing it all on traditional instruments. Victor and his crew are keeping alive a truly vanishing art form, and have practiced their craft at pubs, festivals, wakes, public television, and everywhere in between!
Victor on the Bodhran, the Irish drum	VICTOR McMULLAN vocals, bodhran, spoons, bones, snare drum, washboard, guitar, blarney Victor was born on Exorna Lane in County Derry, Northern Ireland, and raised in nearby Coleraine. He grew up during the Troubles in County Derry, but never were the lyrics of the Irish Rovers' song "The Orange and the Green" more true than in his house, and he prefers good fun to bad politics any day. If you have the notion to buy him a drink, make it a Diet Pepsi; he doesn't drink anymore, (although once he was pretty good at it). In addition to his work with Exorna, he plays drums in various bagpipe bands in and around Springfield, Illinois and is an active member of The St. Andrews Society of Central Illinois.	Playing the spoons; real ones (from the thrift shop)
	FORREST HARRIS fiddle, accordion, tenor banjo, whistle, mandolin, guitar, vocals Forrest was born and raised in Knox County, Illinois, in a place so rural that he never saw a real bagel until he went away to college. He has been playing music since the age of four (which was a very, very long time ago). He plays seven instruments in all, and at least one or two of them pretty well (he's a better fiddler than his grandad, but not as good as either one of his sons). There was even a time when he had hair and played the electric guitar, but for fifteen years or more, he has done none of that nonsense, and has stuck to Scottish and Irish traditional music. In addition to Exorna, Forrest can be seen fiddling and playing the accordion for Beth Ogilvy's Irish dancers in the St. Andrews Society of Central Illinois.
	TIM DUGGAN guitar, harmonica, vocals Tim, with the band since 2010, hails from Springfield, Illinois. Tim grew up listening to his parent's old Irish records, so some of our music was running through his veigns to begin with. He has played for years around Springfield, and we're happy to welcome him to the band. Unlike Forrest and Victor, he has hair, but not so much that it makes us look bad (we never would have hired George Clooney).