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The brother of Dolores Keane, among Ireland’s finest singers, Sean Keane has consistently garnered acclaim for his own talents. A previous person in Reel Union, which presented his sister, Mairtin O’Connor, and Johnny Faulkner, and Arcady, which presented Johnny “Ringo” McDonagh, Sharon Shannon, Cathal Hayden, and Frances Dark, Keane has …

Although most widely known because the harpist using the Chieftains, Derek Bell’s career carries a raft of musical achievements and credits extending in to the worlds of both traditional and folk music — and he didn’t begin playing the harp until he was in his thirties. A significant body in …

The initial traditional Irish folk music group, so far as anyone who came old in the 1970s or ’80s can be involved, may be the Chieftains. Their audio, built mainly on Paddy Moloney’s pipes, is usually otherworldly, almost completely instrumental, and appears as if it comes away from another age …