page_title: Leo's Tavern
section_title: Past
hierarchical_section_title: Leo's Tavern / History / Past
caption_attribution_description: Original description from the en: wikipedia: I took this image myself with a digital camera while Clannad were performing at Leo's Tavern, Co.Donegal, Ireland. There i release all copyright to use it in 'Clannad'.
context_page_description: Leo's Tavern is a restaurant and pub in the Donegal Gaeltacht, known as the home of music artists Clannad, Enya and Moya Brennan. The pub opened in 1968 and held Irish traditional music sessions nightly, becoming the musical starting block for the children of Leo Brennan, the pub's founder.
context_section_description: At the end of Ireland's showband era, musician Leo Ó Braonáin settled with his wife Máire "Baba", opening Tábhairne Leo in 1968. The pub became a gathering place for musicians and singers to take part in Irish traditional music sessions. While working shifts behind the bar, Leo's children Máire (Moya), Ciarán and Pól Ó Braonáin and Noel and Pádraig Ó Dúgáin would accompany their father on stage to tell old Irish stories, or seanchas, to the locals.
  The siblings would also sing songs by Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys and other bands of the era, sometimes translated to Irish Gaelic. While touring in later years, the siblings and their uncles, as Celtic/Folk band Clannad, their younger siblings Brídín, Eithne (Enya), Olive and Deirdre would perform.
  Since Clannad, Moya and Enya's success, the pub has welcomed guests such as Bono (who recorded the music video for In a Lifetime close by with Clannad), The Edge, Paul Brady, Christy Moore, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Mary Black to perform. Tour buses of tourists from Japan, Britain and the United States began to visit the pub to hear Leo sing and tell stories.
caption: Clannad performing in Leo's in 2005.
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