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Singer . Guitarist . Songwriter

Case history ........

Born in Coleraine, Co Derry, Northern Ireland... native of Portstewart.... emigrated to Canada during the late sixties and become a singer and songwriter.

By the early seventies returned to the UK and moved to the Isle of Arran on the West Coast of Scotland... learning and growing.

Returned to Ireland and moved to the magical 'Kingdom of Kerry' for a few years before moving to Dublin with current band at that time "Stagalee".

After a few years of great music in a funky/soul vein with Stagalee, Errol moved into a bluesier vein with a band called "The Business" inherited from Paul Brady's 'Hard Station' album.

'Stagalee' and 'The Business' benefitted from the remarkable talents of many of Dublin's leading musicians of that period (Jimmy Faulkner, Pat O'Farrell, James Delaney, Tommy Moore, Fran Breen, Don Baker, Declan McNeilis, Dave Gaynor, Carl Geraghty, John Forbes, Greg Boland, Dave McHale, Eoin O'Neill, Phillip Donnelly) and a few talented Scottish imports from Glasgow band Cado Belle (Colin Tully, Maggie Reilly and Gavin Hodgson). There was even a short lived exploration of rock meets folk with leading Irish female singer, Mary Black! Mary eventually recovered from the shock, refined her needs and continued her upward trajectory to international stardom.

The eighties saw Errol in London where he founded several new bands featuring, at different times, legendary pedal steel player, B.J.Cole, multi-instrumentalist Steve Simpson, ex Sutherland Brothers sidemen Tim Renwick and Willie Wilson and virtuoso Dublin born guitarist Ed Deane.

In the nineties 'Coyotes' enjoyed considerable success in the 'Americana' genre including appearances at major Americana festivals and a 'Best Album 1997'award at the BBC television 'British Country Music Awards'.

That same year Errol found himself in Nashville, in a studio with some of Nashville's finest from Kieran Kane's 'Dead Reckoning' stable. The resulting album 'Waltzin' In The Water' won the coveted 'Northern Lights - Spirit Of Antrim' award for contributions to the Irish music industry (previous recipients included Brian Kennedy and Liam O'Flynn)

Today, Errol lives in Belfast in Northern Ireland where he continues to write and play sporadically and make the occasional foray to gigs and festivals abroad. An iminent change of direction in the 'day job' in 2008 will create more room for writing and playing music... onwards and upwards!