The birth of House of Hamill, a Celtic folk duo (now trio), is one of those “met cute” stories movies are made of. Rose Baldino’s band, the Harleysville-based Burning Bridget Cleary, was scheduled to perform at the 2014 Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City but her band members were delayed by bad weather. So she approached Brian Buchanan, front man for Canadian Celtic rock band, Enter the Haggis, who agreed to play guitar for her onstage. Then magic happened. The two are now married and launched House of Hamill, whose version of “Pound a Week Rise” rose to number one on the US Folk DJ Charts; their all-violin cover of “Sweet Child of Mine” earned more than 16 million views on Facebook where it was shared 400,000 times. This original song is on their latest release, “Folk Hero.” They recently added Caroline Browning to the band. They met her at a festival in Colorado when their hired bandmates’ flights were cancelled. Must be kismet. You can see more of their videos here.
