Sharon Shannon

Sharon Shannon is an Irish musician, best known for her work with the button accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her 1991 debut album, Sharon Shannon, was the best-selling album of traditional Irish music ever released in Ireland. Beginning with Irish folk music, her work demonstrates a wide-ranging number of musical influences. She won the lifetime achievement award at the 2009 Meteor Awards.

8 June 1968

Born on the same birth day (8 June): Butch Reynolds • Doug Mountjoy • Edmundo Rivero • George Charles Haité • George Pell • Jan Frans De Boever • Jonathan Potter • Kenneth G. Wilson • Kenneth Waltz • Lauren Burns • Liv Morgan • Luigi Comencini • Marguerite Yourcenar • Mimi Mariani • Mohsen Kadivar • Nada Inada • Robert Robinson Taylor • Sandy Nairne • Sara Paretsky

Born in the same month (June 1968): Adam Schmitt • Adrian Garvey • Alastair Lynch • Darrell Armstrong • Guðni Th. Jóhannesson • Kelly Ayotte • Kim Walker (actress) • Miri Yu • Niurka Montalvo • Robert Rodriguez • Scott Aldred • Sonique (musician)