THE amazing WolfeTones are the longest lasting of all the folk acts to come out of the ballad explosion of the sixties.

There were hundreds or maybe thousands of ballad groups and performers around at that time now there's only a handful left and the Tones are still top of the heap.

They have been consistently poplar with young and old over the years and succeeded in winning every generation of young people to their music.

The Tones were ever popular because all enjoyed hearing the songs and stories of their land in a way that no one else could sing or tell them. You might say they had their finger on the pulse of Ireland.

They had their humble beginnings back in 1963 when Brian Warfield and Noel Nagle sailed to England as emigrants. They were soon performing at all the folk clubs around London and it was not long before they became one of the top names on that circuit.

It was in London they first adopted the name WolfeTones as a name for their group....