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Waterford-based Liam Merriman has built up a solid reputation on the Irish live music circuit as a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and recording artist and band member over the years.  

His classy songs, marrying a quality folk sensibility to a contemporary edge, has resulted in his distinctive melodies and literate lyrics receiving positive exposure on national and local radio, and on television through RTE and BBC, as well as performances abroad.

One of the main driving forces behind songwriter clubs in Tramore and Waterford city, he has represented Ireland at the Pan-Celtic Song Contest, writing and performing a song especially for the event.

While signed to the internationally renowned Polygram Records label he released two fine singles, ‘What A Day’ and ‘The Love Is In Your Eyes’. He has also featured on RTE’s Best of Sounds Promising compilation album overseen by Shay Healy and based on Healy’s popular radio series.

In 2004 demand for more live gigs and commercial recordings saw Merriman go full-time into music. He attracted the attention of acclaimed guitarist and producer Greg Boland, who not only produced Merriman’s debut album Three Rivers but teams up with him for occasional live gigs. With his artistic spirit always eager to rise to new challenges Merriman has recently joined forces with poet Pat Carri for live performances that uniquely link the arts of poetry and music, and he also plays with the trad band Caladh.

Inspired by the number of quality Irish and international artists setting up their own label, Liam set up Three Rivers Records and that album, produced by Greg Boland, is now available on the label that gave it his name.

Ever conscious of the need to nurture homegrown talent, Merriman presents a programme of music by Irish artists called The Secret Chord every Sunday night from 10pm to 1am on WLR FM. He also a board Member of Waterford Music Network, which oversees the Teenage Kicks project at Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford that will choose a young band from Waterford to represent Ireland at a major festival in Newfoundland in 2005.