This article is about an Irish folk band. For the type of Scottish music group, see Bothy band.
The Bothy Band
Genres
Irish traditional music
Years active
1975 (1975)–1979, 2007, 2023 - present
Labels
Gael Linn
Members
Paddy Glackin Matt Molloy Paddy Keenan Dónal Lunny Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill Kevin Burke Seán Óg Graham
Past members
Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (Died 2006) Tommy Peoples (Died 2018) Peter Browne
The Bothy Band are an Irish traditional band, originally active during the mid 1970s.[1] They quickly gained a reputation as one of the most influential bands playing Irish traditional music. Their enthusiasm and musical virtuosity had a significant influence on the Irish traditional music movement that continued well after they disbanded in 1979.[2]
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^Harris, Craig. "The Bothy Band Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
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to the flute has influenced many contemporary Irish flute players. During the 1970s, Molloy was a member of TheBothyBand and its successor, the re-founded...
1963. By the 1970s, Planxty and Clannad set the stage for a major popular blossoming of Irish music. Formed in 1974, TheBothyBand became the spearcarriers...
Irish songs, with Lunny and members of theBothyBand on additional instruments. It also featured theband's first use of a synthesizer. Their next album...
including TheBothyBand as well as performing solo from the late 1960s. He played in the fiddle style of East Donegal. After moving to Dublin in the 1960s...
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In the evening, to entertain themselves, these bothybands sang. Several Child Ballads that had died out elsewhere in the UK survived until the 1920s...
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directly to the formation of the Chieftains. His work inspired the likes of Planxty, TheBothyBand and Clannad in the 70s. Later came such bands as Stockton's...
"Campfire in the Dark" and "Sweet Sixteen". Paddy Keenan (born 1950), piper, founding member of theBothyBand in the 1970s and a key figure in the transition...
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at the MacMahon home in Ennis, Co. Clare from 1949 until 1954, when Cooley left Ireland for the United States of America. MacMahon has described the memory...
and theBothyBand and later Tommy Peoples also with theBothyBand and Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh with Altan, who all drew attention and prestige to the Donegal...
developments ran in parallel with the burgeoning folk revival in Ireland that included groups such as Planxty and theBothyBand. It was from this tradition...
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