There was nothing cavalier about the experimentation, or any attempt to obscure the source: “I was dedicated to expanding the ...

Fans have been flooding the comments section of his family's statement announcing the tragic news.

Producer and musician who played with the influential Irish folk bands Planxty, the Bothy Band and Moving Hearts ...

I am devastated by the loss of my great friend and brilliant musician, Dónal Lunny. It has taken me a few days to even begin to get used to the fact that he is no longer with us. I wanted to pen my ...

Since Planxty was probably my all time favorite band of the trad-folk revival many moons ago, it has been an unfulfilled dream to see them reunited and doing a U.S. tour. While the starting four of ...

Not content with the success of Planxty, Dónal Lunny set about reimagining what Irish trad music could be. The band he created are still going strong, writes Ed Power. He's worked with Kate Bush, ...

HE IS known as the godfather of Irish contemporary music and Bono calls him "the Quincy Jones of Ireland". Donal Lunny is legendary amongst the great and the good of the Irish music scene; think of ...

Planxty are one of those seminal Irish acts doomed to bask in an aura of reverence while remaining essentially obscure to all but a tiny subset of the listening public. They placed a rocket under the ...

Lorsqu'en 1972, le groupe Planxty donne son premier concert à Donovan, dans le Comté de Galway, non seulement son répertoire mélange - c'est une première dans l'histoire de la musique irlandaise - des ...