BIO...

Hi everyone... Mary Hoey is

just a small town girl wanting to be heard...she grew up in a little village called Cullyhanna just north of the Castleblayney border in Ireland. From a very early age she was heavily influenced by American country music, her main love was Keith Whitley...she has expressed on many occasions that she simply loved the pain and the truth and the passion in the songs he sung and she wanted to sing these kinds of songs herself, luckily for Mary, she grew up in a very musical family. Her father Edmond, was in a showband back in the 1970s, Ed Dawn and the Mornin Dew, they toured all over Ireland and had a couple of singles that done very well...he later formed a smaller band, which included Mary's mother Sheila on bass, Pete McEntee on drums and a little 9 year old keyboard player called Mary...she has also stated that she didn't play very well but it was just so amazing to be performing to audiences at such a tender age. She left the band when she was 17 but her heart always longed to go back...she got married and started a family...when her kids were a little older she went back with her parents fully armed with a vast array of American traditional country songs and a few of her very own compositions...that was when she started to really want more from this kind of life...she eventually ventured out on her own with a catalogue of backing tracks and was doing well. Mary was blessed then again with 2 more beautiful babies so she took time out to be with them. Unfortunately the onset of covid put a dramatic stop to her performing live, but it did however open a few new doors for her...she spent this time sharing home videos of herself singing various country songs on facebook and eventually built up a nice little following which thankfully is still growing. In 2020 Mary was invited to be a guest on Glor Tire, an Irish country music talent tv show...she reached the semi finals and had such an amazing time and has said many times that it was a wonderful experience...she was also very fortunate to have gotten to perform one of her own songs live on TV. In 2021 Mary was incredibly lucky to have been given permission from Keith Whitleys brother Dwight Whitley to record Keith's song When you say nothing at all and a mutual Whitley friend, Troy Elder put together an amazing video to go with the song...and according to Mary, this is her most treasured musical achievement to date. In April of 2023, Mary received the Big Tom McBride Inspirational Award at the Hot Country Music Awards and had the opportunity to present her own American Country Music Show on Hot Country TV. She's still writing her own songs, she's back out on the road with her backing tracks and absolutely loving life...shes still climbing that country ladder and she's certainly having a lot fun doing so...