Irish music boyband consisting of Simon Peters, Ben Troy and Gerald Ahern. The band has named after another irish trio, the Three Amigos, consisting of Jimmy Buckley, Robert Mizzell, Patrick Feeney. The Wee Amigos were officially launched by the Three Amigos on their Grand Tour concert in Enniskillen on March 30, 2011. A few days later, they performed with Patrick Feeney at his Country music weekend in Claremorris - County Mayo, and in May 2011, they supported Derek Ryan on his band. Other performances followed: Country Fest in Letterkenny, Crumlins Childrens Hospital. The great performance was on the Late Late Show, Ireland's most watched TV show. The band si supervised by the music producer Steve Bloor. Gerald is an extremely talented boy from Cork, Ireland, and he has won many talent competitions and was in the final of Corks Got Talent 2011. He also won Blackpools Got Talent in the UK. Gerald launched in 2011 a 11 track CD called 'Love me'. Simon sings especially country music enjoying great success, including winning Entertainer of Year at the West Limerick Awards and will be going to Scotland to sing with Gene Watson. He also appeared on the Late Late Toy show in 2010 and recording trip to Nashville. Simon is a YouTube hit with a duet with John Hogan with over 50000 hits. He worked on his videos with producer Steve Bloor. Recently, Simon won Young Country Star at the Hot Country TV Awards night and has a new album out call Young Country with duets with John Hogan, Noel Flynn and live recording from the Jamboree in Nashville. Ben enjoying a great succes in coutrny music singing in duo with his father Tommy. He won duo of the year at the Sunday world awards, Best Duo at the Limerick FM awards, Best New Country Duo at TIPP FM awards and Young Entertainer of the Year at the Hot Country Country Music Award show in May 2011. Tommy & Ben were on a show running in TG4 Feis & blood were they are through to the semi final, also down to the last 16 in the all Irelands Got Talent show. They have been featured on SKY TV and have had the most request video on Hot Country & Featured artist on the Philmack Country Show. Tommy & Ben were also touring in the UK in this summer. Ben won Young Entertainer of the Year at The Hot country TV awards. He released an DVD album: The Hills of Donegal.
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