Sigean was formed in 1997, in Bristol, Tennessee, in order to allow local musicians to perform Irish traditional music. Our area of East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, Western North Carolina and Eastern Kentucky was heavily settled by "Scots-Irish" immigrants in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Therefore, Sigean exists to perform the music of the Celts, the jigs and reels that were once and are still heard throughout the green fields of Ireland, to a contemporary American audience. Their music is greatly influenced in the tradition and flavor of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the other Celtic nations.

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