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Infobox musical artist | name = The Brothers Creeggan| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Toronto , Ontario , Canada | genre = Alternative rock , Jazz | years_active = start date|1992& ndash;present| label =| associated_acts =| website = URL|brotherscreeggan.com| current_members = Andy Creeggan Jim Creeggan | past_members = Ian McLauchlan (musician)|Ian McLauchlan | notable_instruments =The Brothers Creeggan is a Canadian alternative rock / jazz band composed of Jim Creeggan (upright bass, guitar, bass guitar, vocals), Andy Creeggan (guitar, piano, accordion, percussion, vocals) and Ian McLauchlan (drums). The group has released four albums: The Brothers Creeggan (1993), The Brothers Creeggan II (1997), Trunks (2000) and Sleepyhead (2002).
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Growing up in Toronto , brothers Jim and Andy Creeggan started in music by recording cover version|cover songs of James Brown and George Thorogood on a rented Multitrack recording|4-track . cite web| last=MacNeil | first=Jason | url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-brothers-creeggan-p293257/biography | title=The Brothers Creeggan - Biography | publisher= Allmusic ( Rovi Corporation ) | accessdate=2011-08-21 As teenagers, the pair performed in several groups, including the Synthetics, an a cappella quartet that won a 1987 Canadian talent contest in which Alanis Morissette was runner-up.cite news | title = Event: Brothers Creeggan - Monday | last = Soeder | first = John | url = | newspaper = The Plain Dealer | date = 1998-05-08 | page = 13 ('Friday' section) | accessdate = The brothers went on to become founding members of Barenaked Ladies . Andy left Barenaked Ladies in 1995 to pursue a musical composition degree at McGill University , while Jim continued as the band's bassist. cite web| last=Hucke | first=Erin | url= http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/brotherscreeggan-trunks | title=The Brothers Creeggan - Biography | publisher= PopMatters | date= | accessdate=2011-08-21 cite web| last=Harrington | first=Richard | url= http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/18/099r-021800-idx.html | title=Review: The Brothers Creeggan - 'Trunks' - Fat Chicken | publisher= The Washington Post | date= | accessdate=2011-08-21
The Brothers Creeggan released their self-titled debut album in 1993. The song "Places" features backing vocalist|backing vocals by Alanis Morissette. cite book| last=Robbins | first=Ira A. | title=The Trouser Press Guide to 90's Rock | edition=5th | publisher= Simon & Schuster|Fireside Books | page=63 | location=New York | date=1997 | isbn=978-0-684-81437-7 The album was "was almost a Demo (music)|demo thing," according to Andy. "We finished it up and sent it to some friends."cite news | title = Partially Clad Two-Fifths of Original Barenaked Ladies Put On Some 'Trunks' | last = Brown | first = Mark | url = | newspaper = RockyMountainNews | publisher = | date = 2000-02-09 | page = 11D | accessdate = 2009-12-27 A second album, The Brothers Creeggan II , followed in 1997. Three years later, the duo added a third member, drummer Ian McLauchlan, and released their third album, Trunks . Andy said the album was "definitely a natural evolution from the first two albums," as the songs on Trunks "were more accessible and more continuous to each other."Jane Stevenson of Jam! called the album "a delicate and sweet-sounding effort that combines the best of folk and jazz with gentle lead vocals from both Jim and Andy." cite web| last=Stevenson | first=Jane | url= http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/B/Brothers_Creeggan/AlbumReviews/2000/01/16/770467.html | title=Album Review: The Brothers Creeggan - 'Trunks' | publisher= Jam! ( Quebecor Media ) | date=2000-01-16 | accessdate=2011-08-21 Allmusic 's Theresa E. LaVeck described it as "an extended evening lullaby: soft, sweet, and sleepy (think Simon & Garfunkel lite)." cite web| last=LaVeck | first=Theresa E. | url= http://allmusic.com/album/trunks-r461957 | title=The Brothers Creeggan - Review - 'Trunks' | publisher= Allmusic ( Rovi Corporation ) | date= | accessdate=2011-08-21
The group's fourth album, Sleepyhead , was released on Nettwerk in 2002. Barenaked Ladies member Ed Robertson and singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer guest on album track "Anna on the Moon". cite journal| last=Kisliuk | first=Bill | date=2002-07 | title=Reviews | journal= CMJ New Music Monthly | publisher=College Media Inc. | volume=1 | issue=103 | page=48 | issn=1074-6978 | accessdate= 2011-08-21 Tom Semioli of Allmusic said that with the album, "the Brothers Creeggan have slipped a contemplative masterpiece into our midst." cite web| last=Semioli | first=Tom | url= http://allmusic.com/album/sleepyhead-r590417 | title=The Brothers Creeggan - Review - 'Sleepyhead' | publisher= Allmusic ( Rovi Corporation ) | date= | accessdate=2011-08-21
On July 13, 2009, drummer Ian McLauchlan died from complications following heart surgery in Toronto.
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