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Thomas Makem (4 November 1932 – 1 August 2007) was an Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
In March 2006, fifty years after the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem recorded their debut album, Conor Murray wrote the first full-length biography on the group. The book, titled The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem & Robbie O'Connell: The Men Behind the Sweaters, chronicles the Clancy Brothers from the birth of Paddy Clancy in 1922 to early 2006.
Other backup singers joining in created the "effect of an Irish Republican Army battalion having itself a time in a pub" in his opinion. [3] (The future name of the group, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, was added to later re-issues of the album.)
Makem and Clancy was an Irish folk duo popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The group consisted of Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, who had originally achieved fame as a part of the trailblazing folk group The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in the 1960s. Makem and Clancy sang a combination of traditional Irish music, folks songs from a variety of ...
Liam Clancy (Irish: Liam Mac Fhlannchadha; 2 September 1935 – 4 December 2009) was an Irish folk singer from Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary.He was the youngest member of the influential folk group the Clancy Brothers, regarded as Ireland's first pop stars. [1]
Date Tribute/Special Guests 13 May 1967 The Clergy 16 March 1968 The London Irish Eamonn Andrews: 25 October 1969 Micheál Mac Liammóir: Maureen Potter and Hilton Edwards: 31 May 1975 Michael O'Hehir: 6 January 1973 Seán Keating: 18 December 1976 Maureen Potter: 21 January 1984 Seán MacBride: 28 April 1984 The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
After the tour’s final date, Band-Maid announced Epic Narratives, ... the band performed a special set on August 30, 2024, in the lead-up to its release on September 25, 2024. ...
The three Makem brothers were born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland and grew up in Dover, New Hampshire, where the family moved to in the mid 1970s.Their father, Tommy Makem, was one of the most famous Irish musicians in the world, first as a member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and later as a solo act and then as a duo with Liam Clancy.