The Wolfe Tones will play in Boston and then as part of a program billed as “An Gorta Mor, 175th Anniversary Tribute to the Great Irish Famine” in New York this March.
The Wolfe Tones Three (left to right) - Noel Nagle, Tommy Byrne and Brian Warfield. By Mairead Carey, Contributor
The peace process hasn’t extended to the Irish ballad group the Wolfe Tones. The famous music group split last Christmas, and is now at war over who is entitled to use the name.
There are now two groups, each styling themselves the Wolfe Tones, and the rift has led to an upsurge of jokes about the group, which has entertained the nation with Republican ballads for the last 38 years.
The split has caused deep division among the Warfield family. The two brothers and leading members of the group, songwriter Brian and singer Derek, have not spoken since Derek was informed by a lawyer’s letter that the partnership was being dissolved.