Eddie Sheehan

Friday 19 December 2025
8pm start
Toss the Feathers Christmas Party
Manchester Academy (Club)
£25

Get ready to dance and celebrate at our Toss The Feathers Christmas Party - it's going to be a festive night of fun and merriment!

Following sellout Manchester shows Christmas 2024 and St Patrick Day Special, Toss the Feathers return for one night only. 

Toss the Feathers rose from the Manchester trad scene in the mid 1980's. In 1987 the band, already becoming popular on the Irish circuit, was joined by Ed Sheehan and their popularity moved to the next level and saw Toss the Feathers become one of the busiest touring bands in the UK often playing getting on for 300 dates each year in to the mid-90's!

Toss the Feathers: Biography

Manchester's own Celtic rockers, 'Toss the Feathers' are known for their contemporary blending of traditional Irish music with various music styles.

At the helm Eddie Sheehan's dynamic vocals and driving guitar, power life into traditional songs and the band's original repertoire.

The rhythmic backbone of the band is provided by Dave Smylie, who's energetic dance grooves add the bottom to the band's sound.

Mike McGoldrick with his mastery of flute, whistle and pipes, along with life long musical partner, the virtuoso fiddler, Desi Donnelly, complete the lineup. Together creating genius arrangements, weaving multitude of mellifluous textures that are the Toss the Feathers sound so loved by audiences.