Bill McGraw

Bill McGraw writes, records and preforms in New Zealand. A songwriter for many years and member of various rock bands in the US, He is currently a solo acoustic artist playing venues in the Hawkes Bay and Auckland area, New Zealand. Musical styles range from traditional Irish, "Napier Nell", "I've Got to Go", to Pop, Folk and Rock, "The Same Old Thing", "For Every Bad", "Let it Ride". Bill plans on expanding venues to include Sydney Australia in the coming months.

I began playing music in rock bands as a teenager in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From there, I went on to jam with friends in Clarion Pa, while studying for a graduate degree in 1994. I found myself in Alabama in 1996 playing in a band called "The Applicants" in Gulf Shores. This band played many bars and went on to record a CD called "Ride" around 1998. Shortly after, I recorded one on my own called "For the Poets Drama". In 2000, I moved once again to Florida and began listening and playing traditional Irish Music. There I met fellow musician, Kevin Brown, who later sang and played tin whistle on two CDs called "Off the Wagon" and "Goin Down Swingin". It was around this time that I read a book while in New Orleans about vampires and haunted history tours of the city. I bought the book in a gift shop in an Irish Pub. Inspired by the stories I read, I wrote a song about them and sent them into the owners of the tour group. They liked the song well enough to include it on a video they were working on at the time: Haunted History Tours of New Orleans, "Journey into Darkness..The Trilogy". It is available to buy at their internet site. I currently reside and play music in bars in New Zealand as a solo artist. Some of my best times as a musician were had at a bar called "Billy Burkes" in Taradale, There I played once a week for over a year, some of that time with friend and drummer, Pierce Jenkenson. Another friend and bar manager of Billy Burkes, Andi Kennard, gave me an appreciation for "The Pogues". There I learned what it means to drink 15 pints of beer. Guinness is what I crave when I create and perform. Woohoo. You can find more music at the site: http://www.billmcgrawmusic.com. Thanks to all those who reviewed the music here and offered comments.

Taradale, NZ

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