Paddy Sherlock sprang through Ireland's Royal Music Academy and the Irish Youth Orchestra. He first started busking Grafton Street at the age of 16.

 

He's the one that got away - landed on his feet in the night-time music world of Paris, trombone in hand and original song on his lips.

A lifetime's adventure began on the cobbled streets and the smoky underground clubs of the Latin quarter.

 

Member of headline French rock acts: La Mano Negra, FFF, P18, and The Swinging Lovers, he’s a natural Sinatra (on-speed), style host on stage.

He toured the world and played main stage at some of the greatest festivals in the world. From Glastonbury to Montreal Jazz Festival, the man has travelled

 

Paddy led the Neo-Swing movement in Paris, playing the longest-running regular gig in modern Paris history - 20 years every Sunday at the Coolin in St. Germain. The gig was infamous and only ended because the whole block was sold and the venue closed.

Over the years Paddy invited countless legends to sit in with him (David Gilmour, John Lord, Ian Paice, Woody Allen band, James Brown band (unfortunately without James…) Martha Reeves, Glen Hansard, Mary Black and Jack “L” Lukeman).

 

Both mentor and muse, Paddy blew on the flames of artists opening for him (Ellen Birath, Brisa Roché...) sparking lifetime collaborations that challenge him to expand his style and deepen his songwriting, both for his solo records and as the Anglophone plume for others: Yarol, FFF.

 

Mythic Paddy Sherlock scenes stick like cinema in the imaginations of those who've seen and heard him: the band on stage still beating like a heart but Paddy leaping to the helm, high above an enraptured crowd, lamps swinging back and forth between each wail and jab of horn, feet kicking along a narrow bar as men stare and women swoon and sing along. Improvisation turning time into a dream of freedom, romance, possibility.