Frances Cunningham is a Southeast Texas native and was exposed to Irish music at an early age through her Father’s love of it. She learned the Bouzouki and became a founding member of the Celtic Rock band SixMileBridge which recorded and toured heavily from the late 90s into the 2000s.
Frances spent 5 years playing the Bouzouki weekly on the Grand Ole Opry in the Mike Snider String Band playing Old Time music and exposing thousand of country music fans to the instrument for the first time, in her Nashville years.
However Irish music is her true love and she is a winner on both the tenor banjo and bouzouki at the Midwest Fleadh. She currently tours with EJ Jones in the Piper Jones Band playing festivals nationwide singing, playing, composing and Scottish Step Dancing. Her solo album has been featured on Fiona Ritchie’s ‘Thistle and Shamrock’ and Celtic music radio shows around the country.
