Billy Marnane

Since leaving Stiofáin Naofa I have been involved in different areas of the music industry:

• Drummer for Niall Connolly playing Pub/Venue circuit in Ireland.
• Drummer with various covers bands performing on corporate entertainment scene
• Guitarist/Singer with covers bands
• 6 year Career in Engineering.
• Manager of live Entertainment act 'The Marvels'
• Director of Red Entertainment Ltd.

Stiofáin Naofa was the window to a career in entertainment for me. It taught me not only music, management and sound but placed me at grass roots level of a very positive and active music scene and supplied the tools to work within it. I learned a lot about the psychology of working within the music industry from the teachers at Stiofáin Naofa.
Fundamentals that cannot be learned from text books or photocopy hand outs but knowledge passed on from people with decades of experience in the industry.

Stiofáin Naofa has been the building block for my career in music to date and without it I'm certain I would not have had the opportunities to work with so many wonderful people. My greatest wishes to the course and the teachers for the future and may it continue to nourish the country's talent for many more years.