Paddy Sherlock

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

For Paddy, a lifetime's adventure began on the cobbled streets and the smoky underground clubs of the Latin Quarter.                                                                                                                                                                            

Paddy's Swinging Lover's led the Neo-Swing movement in Paris with a full-on New Orleans Brass Band.

Paddy famously played the longest ever residence in Paris history - 20 years every Sunday at the Coolin in the heart of the Saint Germain quarter.

Rock and Folk magazine said of him: "Jazz - But not the kind that breaks your balls..."

 

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. Paddy leaping to the helm, high above the enraptured crowd, lamps swinging back and forth between each wail and jab of his horn, feet kicking along a narrow bar as men and women swoon and sing along, improvisation turning time into a dream of freedom, romance, possibility.