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K\\xedla are an Irish folk music/world music group, originally formed in 1987 in the Irish language secondary school Col\\xe1iste Eoin in County Dublin. The band\'s first performance was upstairs in the Baggott Inn, Dublin, and was attended by three people. The original lineup for the band was Eoin Dillon (uilleann pipes), Colm Mac Con Iomaire (fiddle), Rossa \\xd3 Snodaigh (whistle, bones), R\\xf3n\\xe1n \\xd3 Snodaigh (bodhr\\xe1n), Karl Odlum (bass), and David Odlum (guitar). Colm \\xd3 Snodaigh, the brother of R\\xf3n\\xe1n and Rossa, joined the band before the first recordings were made. R\\xf3n\\xe1n, Rossa, and Colm \\xd3 Snodaigh are sons of publisher P\\xe1draig \\xd3 Snodaigh and artist Cliodna Cussen and are brothers of Irish TD, Aengus \\xd3 Snodaigh.In 1991, Colm Mac Con Iomaire and Dave Odlum left K\\xedla to join The Frames, an Irish rock band. In the same year, Dee Armstrong and Eoin O\'Brien joined the band as replacements. Dave Reidy also joined as a lead guitarist, though he emigrated to San Francisco a year later. Karl was then replaced by Ed Kelly on bass who emigrated to Scotland a little over a year after the recording Mind the Gap in 1994. Eoin O\'Brien was replaced by Lance Hogan. Laurence O Keefe filled in temporarily on bass until Brian Hogan assumed that position prior to recording T\\xf3g \\xc9 Go Bog \\xc9.In 2003, in a review of their album Luna Park, K\\xedla\'s blend of Irish traditional music and world music with a modern rock sensibility was credited with breathing new life into contemporary Irish folk music.In 2009, Donegal guitarist Seanan Brennan joined the band to replace Lance who was on a sabbatical. He has remained with the band since then bringing an electric guitar to the line up for the first time since Eoin O\'Brien was a member. He made his first appearance with K\\xedla in early January of that year on a televised version of Leath ina Dhiaidh a hOcht.In 2008 K\\xedla recorded "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" with U2, Shane MacGowan, Glen Hansard, Damien Dempsey, The Dubliners and a host of other artists. With proceeds going to The Irish Cancer Society. The song was later included on a U2.com-only album of collaborations that U2 recorded with other artists - Duals (2012).K\\xedla have played at many festivals around the world, including D\\xfan Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures, Electric Picnic, Womadelaide, Glastonbury, F\\xe9ile an D\\xf3il\\xedn, St. Chartier, Reading and Cambridge Folk Festival, Montreaux Jazz Festival and the Stockholm Water Festival. All members of the group participate in composing and arranging K\\xedla\'s songs. they have also performed at student events such as the NUIG Arts Ball in 2010, the biggest event of its kind in Ireland.2015 could be termed the \'year of the awards and nominations\' for K\\xedla. They collaborated on the music for the Oscar nominated animated feature, Song of the Sea with Bruno Coulais. They received an Annie Awards nomination for \'Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production\'. They also received an Emmy nomination for their work on a Crossing The Line production called The Secret Life of the Shannon. In June Eoin Dillon left and James Mahon from Shankill took his place.