If you wish to hear some top notch Irish Folk music, here you go! The Conly's have been performing traditional Celtic music in the Shreveport-Dallas-Houston-Jackson area for over twenty years.

The festivals in which the Conly's have performed include North Texas Irish Festival, Natchitoches Folk Festival, Red River Revel in Shreveport, Louisiana Folk Fest in Monroe, Mississippi Celtic Fest in Jackson, Yukon Celtic Fest in Oklahoma and 7 Nations Fest in New Orleans and many others.

The Conly's consists of Bill Conly, Bob Jordan and Betty Waddoups and Keith Waddoups. In addition to the Irish band, Bill plays guitar and vocals for the 12th Louisiana String Band performing War between the States period music all over the Southern states. Bill plays guitar, mandolin, bodhran, bazooki and also handles vocals.

Bob Jordan contributes great guitar and banjo leads as well as additional vocals. Bob has a long history with folk music in the Tennessee and North Carolina mountains. Bob did instrumentals for John McCutcheon when he recorded "Wind that Shakes the Barley." He also recorded with David Holt in his Brand New Old Time String Band.

Betty Waddoups plays the flute and penny whistle in the Conly's Irish Band as well as doing lead and harmony vocals. Betty has a remarkable ability to carry a great lead on songs that she has heard for the first time. Betty also plays in a folk-pop band known as Shakey Ground at the Celtic Crossing, an Irish pub in which the Conly's also perform.

Keith Waddoups fills in this great band, adding additional vocals, bodhran and snare.

Their newest release is the 2003 Gospel Album and gives us a great set of gospel favorites with the Irish sound we have come to love from the Conlys.