Seamus Eagan

Seamus Egan was born in Hatboro, Pennsylvania to Irish emigrés Jack and Ann Egan. At the age of three his parents moved the family back home to County Mayo, Ireland. He learned accordion from Martin Donaghue. He saw Matt Molloy and James Galway on television and suddenly decided to take up the Irish flute. Seamus won the all-Ireland championship on four different instruments by the time he was 14. When Mick Moloney founded Green Fields of America in 1977, Seamus joined up and took lessons from Mick on the banjo.