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10-12-2021, 07:29 PM
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RIP Paddy Moloney
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10-13-2021, 08:49 AM
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A longtime favourite musician, I got to see the Chieftains perform live only once, it was an unforgettable concert. His music will surely live on.
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10-15-2021, 02:14 AM
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Paddy was kind enough to let me come on stage and jam with the Chieftains a couple of times. I remember him as a very sweet guy. Very professional too.
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10-15-2021, 01:36 PM
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Little Hero!
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10-16-2021, 08:53 AM
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Well now ...
I saw the Chieftains in 1991 when I was back at university in England. I came across them some years earlier in Sweden in 86, when I got involved in playing with an Irish-Swedish folk band. I still love their music and they're a regular visitor to my Youtube list in my car. Paddy Moloney was 'the character' in the band, the joker and the front man. He exuded a love for life and for all kinds of music and cultures.
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10-17-2021, 07:13 AM
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Watched the BBC documentary on The Chieftains last night. It’s on YouTube. Really good. Followed it up with a number of Chieftain concert videos to add more music to the evening’s history. Wishin I had made the effort to see them.
Jeff
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10-17-2021, 08:42 PM
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Here's my Paddy Moloney story: when I was making a living gigging out and playing Irish music in the Chicago area in the late 70's and early 80's, I got to be good friends with a music promoter named Jim McGuire. He was a young guy, in his twenties, and one of the acts he handled when they came through Chicago were the Chieftains.
Jim not only comped a group of us to the Chieftain's concert but granted us backstage access. He told me: "When you talk to Paddy Moloney, tell him you met him before in Dublin, on a Sunday, at a bus stop and it was raining. He'll shake your hand and tell you: 'Right...right...good to see you again, lad!'" So that's what I did: told Moloney about meeting him on a rainy Sunday in Dublin. Just as predicted, Moloney said: "Right...right...right...good to see you again, lad!" I figure that was his way of being affable without getting too drawn in to his fans' remembrances. Wade Hampton Miller
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