Tony And Serdar

Tony Floyd Kenna & Serdar Buhan.

Tony and Serdar met through their mutual friend P.J. Murphy of Sweny’s Joycian Chemist. Throughout 2019 they played acoustic and electric gigs including for The Swedish Ambassador’s fireside evening, Drop Dead Twice, Lost Lane, Mary’s Bar and Hardware, impromptu at Kennedys and more… With 2020/21 being pretty much written of due to the Pandemic they plan to pick up again in 2022 with both gigs and their first joint recordings.

About Serdar Buhan (January 2021)

Serdar came to Ireland from Turkey four years ago, for both work and music. He stared playing at age 13 progressing through the usual school and college sessions and bands. In February 2019 Serdar found himself at a function hosted by the new Swedish Ambassador and linked up with Tony Floyd Kenna who was both performing and acting as M.C. at the intimate ‘fireside’ gathering. Within a couple of weeks Serdar was joining Tony at regular weekly acoustic and electric gigs adding his own distinctive musical colour to Tony’s songs. During this period he also played a season with Bajjna reggae band playing the summer 2019 festival in Drogheda and supporting the Wailers at Vicar Street. Always eager to take his skill to the next level Serdar has been studying advanced guitar with the maestro Hector Castillo.

Photographs by Hayri Can Akyel, Selin Akcan, ipen Demirel, Ismail Bozkurt, Jean O’Sullivan.