Mara are Irish brother and sister duo Sean (song-writer, guitarist and vocalist) and Maura Donaghy (vocals). They hail from Co-Tyrone and have been in the music-biz for in and around a decade: doing musical-theatre and playing in a series of cover-bands throughout Ireland and England. This project is their first together as an original band. Mara's musical lineage, blood-wise, comes from their ballad-singing mother Eileen Donaghy; who, as 'Ireland's Queen of Song', sold millions of records in the 60s and 70s, throughout the world and continues to sell to the global Irish Diaspora. Mara share a variety of musical influences. These range from the indigenous music they experienced in and around the Ireland of their youth, to Kate Bush, David Bowie, Sex Pistols, Carpenters, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and onto more recent outfits like Radiohead, Turin Brakes, Paula Cole, Relish and the like. Mara, through songwriter Sean, tackle a variety of subjects in a, sometimes, witty, always, non-prea