Hunger of the Skin – Brian Finnegan

Brian Finnegan with The Hunger of the Skin Band Forest Fest 2025

Hunger of the Skin – Brian Finnegan

Brian Finnegan is a celebrated composer, collaborator and producer and has toured and recorded with artistes as diverse as KAN, Cara Dillon, Boris Grebenshikov, Anoushka Shankar, Bebel Gilberto, Ed Sheeran and Sam Gellaitry.

In March/April 2020, he created his most expansive and ambitious collection of work to date.

Featuring a genre crossing cast of 24 musicians, and recorded remotely in home studios around the world; ‘Flow, In The Year Of Wu Wei’ was the first single from ‘Hunger Of The Skin’, it was released in June 2020 and nominated for the RTE Radio 1 Folk Awards 2020, ‘Best Original Track’.

The ‘Hunger of the Skin Band’ features;

Brian Finnegan on whistle/flute
Seán Óg Graham on guitar
Liam Bradley on drums
Patsy Reid in fiddles
Danny Byrt on percussion and drums
Conor McCreanor on bass

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