I Like All the Singing: Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy with "A Place in the Choir"

Today's tune is a nice happy one by Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy called A Place in the Choir. Makem, who died in 2007, was a folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller known as the Bard of Armagh. Internationally acclaimed, he was a member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. A baritone, he played a number of instruments including 5 string banjo, tin whistle, low whistle, guitar, bodhrán and bagpipes. Liam Clancy, who died in 2009, was the youngest member of The Clancy Brothers. He was known for his powerful voice. Bob Dylan considered Clancy the greatest ballad singer ever and he was a hero to the young Dylan as he was learning his craft. He was a central figure in the folk revival of Europe and North America. A Place in the Choir was released as a single in 1980 (the B side was Sliabh Geal gCua, and can be found on the retrospective The Makem And Clancy Collection, released by Readers Digest in 2011.

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Makem; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Clancy