Paul Leegan
Paul began his career in show business like thousands of others when first hearing Lonnie Donegan as a teenager in the 1950's. His first experience of performing was on the UK's thriving folk circuit playing banjo and guitar and singing American folk songs by the likes of Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie and Big Bill Broonzy to name just a few.
In the 1960's Paul began to tour the UK and achieved amazing success with his own band The Lonesome Travelers.
In the latter part of the 1970's he starred on Hughie Green's 'Opportunity Knocks' tv show. He sung a song called "It Takes A Worried Man" to great success. Sadly Paul had to decline to appear on any of the future shows due to his busy touring schedule.
Paul's roots have always been in skiffle and country blues music, and when he was told that Lonnie Donegan was going to perform in Coventry on New Year's Eve 1979, he went along, met his idol and duetted with Lonnie on stage singing one of Lonnie's own songs. He received a thunderous applause from the packed house and afterwards made the firm decision that he would continue to sing the songs that he loved most and remind people that there just isn't enough skiffle in the world.
In 1997 he began a string of theatre shows across the UK and Europe which continue to this very day still performing the music he has worked hard to keep popular.
Paul now mixes skiffle with country blues and 50s rock and roll to great success and he has never looked back as more and more younger musicians are going back to the roots and realizing that the UK music scene didn't arrive the day the Beatles came into the charts.
