Savage first saw the Wolfe Tones in concert in Waltham in the late 1970s. “The music was rowdy and raucous and the crowd was the same. I thought they were playing it up for an American crowd ...

Their music was well-received in cities with large Irish populations, like Boston, New York and Chicago. Over the span of their lengthy career, the Wolfe Tones have toured America many times.

founded The Wolfe Tones with his brother Derek, Noel Nagle, and Liam Courtney in 1963. They rode the Irish ballad boom of the Sixties, singing rebel songs and sad tales of the Irish diaspora.