Early Life
At eight years old, Shannon began performing with Disirt Tola, a band from County Clare. With Disirt Tola, Shannon toured the United States at age fourteen.
Shannon also worked as a competitive showjumper, but gave it up at age sixteen to focus on her music performing.
Shannon similarly abandoned studying at University College Cork.
In the mid-1980s, Shannon studied the accordion with Karen Tweed and the fiddle with Frank Custy, and performed with the band Arcady, of which she was a founding member.
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