Damian McGinty was the youngest member of Celtic Thunder when he joined the group eight years ago.
Flash forward to the act’s “The Very Best of Celtic Thunder” tour, at Symphony Hall in Springfield on Monday and the Orpheum on April 11, and not much has changed.
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“I’ve come back five or six years later with a lot more experience, and I’m still the youngest in the group,” McGinty, 22, told the Herald.
The Derry, Northern Ireland, native returns to the show that gave him his start after several years working in Los Angeles. McGinty earned a recurring spot on Fox’s “Glee” as one of two winners from the first season of Oxygen’s “The Glee Project.”
“I went into ‘The Glee Project’ as ‘This is a challenge, I want to give it a shot.’ I won it. Only then did I realize I would move to Los Angeles and work with Fox for two years,” McGinty said.
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McGinty played Rory Flanagan, a foreign exchange student from Ireland, in season three and part of season four. McGinty said he was unable to be part of the show’s two-hour finale last month due to scheduling conflicts.
“I look back on it very fondly,” he said of the reality competition. “I was going in at 18 years old. Even though I was with Celtic Thunder for four years, I was very young. I’m still young now. I went out to Los Angeles myself. I was looking at everything with my eyes wide open. I was very innocent and pretty naive about it all.”
Prior to “The Glee Project,” McGinty was still living at home and going to school between Celtic Thunder tours. Filming “Glee” was a big change for the then-teen, who got his first break with a charity CD he recorded at age 13.
“When you move to L.A., you have no choice but to grow up pretty quickly,” he said.
McGinty is sticking it out in Los Angeles. He is working on a solo album and taking American accent lessons.
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His album will be a departure from such Irish-centric songs as “Danny Boy” and “Galway Girl” that he sings with Celtic Thunder.
“There is a Coldplay vibe, Sam Smith vibe to it,” he said. “It’s different from anything I’ve ever done.”
He also hopes to get back into acting, hence the speech lessons.
“It’s never been a priority for me, I’m not going to lie and say that it has,” McGinty said of acting. “But I acted in a fairly big TV show. It would be silly not to pursue that in some shape or fashion.”
“The Very Best of Celtic Thunder” at the Orpheum, April 11. Tickets: $50-$115; ticketmaster.com.
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