Charmaine Fleming

The Brazen Heads

Led by Dubliner Liam Mackey, The Brazen Heads are a raucous, bawdy, fun-loving band that kicks out high energy "Celtic mayhem." Featuring their own brand of traditional and Celtic rock styled tunes on their albums, "Who's Yer Paddy," & "Curse of the Hag", they've been credited with setting the bar of excellence on the Arizona Irish music scene. Most often described as a cross between the cheeky fun of the Bare Naked Ladies and the roguish impact of The Pogues, their ability to connect with audiences through humor, politics, and high impact musical abandon puts them in very high demand. While based in Boston in the ‘90s, Liam Mackey and the band were featured in the Irish Language Film "Out of Ireland," which highlighted Irish immigrants living and working in the USA. Boston Mayor Tom Menino also chose the band as the featured Irish act for multiple political fundraisers, which included events in New York and Washington, D.C. for the Kennedy family and the F.B.I. As if that wasn't enough, the band managed to keep busy when not touring by holding down a three-year residency in the famous Black Rose Pub in Boston, entertaining four to five day/nights a week to standing-room-only audiences. Currently based out of Arizona, the line-up of guitar, bass, drums, fiddle, keyboards, Irish whistles, accordion, saxophone and flutes has no shortage of regional work. They are playing 8-12 dates a month without extensive travel, and since releasing their newest CD "Curse of the Hag," as well as self-producing three full-length music videos, they are now accepting dates in Chicago, Boston, Florida and Ireland.