Probably of no interest to you guys, but Paddy Moloney, founder of Irish trad supergroup The Chieftains died today.
Chieftains founder dies

I was aware of the Chieftains, actually. I think I even saw them on Saturday Night Live way back when. They were around for a good while, weren't they?

How do you have a name that Irish?

I'm glad they mentioned his work at Claddagh
because it's a great label - right up there with Topic -
that advanced many a great Irish bands. The first Chieftains
album came out on that label a few years before Moloney
worked full time for them. I think the label is still located in the
Temple Bar area of the city. At least that's what I remember from 2004.

There's a bittersweet story of Frank Zappa's recording
session in February of '93 - about 9 months before his death -
with The Chieftains and Tom Jones when he had to excuse
himself from the session because of his battle with prostate cancer.

Sixty years of The Chieftains!
What a glorious ride! (He died yesterday, actually).

Luis De Pablo

Decades, as rostasi points out.
By being Irish, dimwit. :rolleyes:

Other famous(ish) Irish performers: Paddy Reilly, Luke Kelly, Daniel O'Donnell, Maire Brennan, Christy Moore...

Whiskeyphiles the lot of them.

And proud of it. Though I doubt Daniel O'Donnell could handle a whisky...

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Don't say you weren't warned! :D

Colin Powell (Covid)

This is very sad news, Trollheart.

In case people aren't aware of his stature, not just as a musician, and not just in Ireland: The Chieftans made many collaborative albums with other folk musicians from France, Spain, Mexico, as well as the big-name stars mentioned in this short "videobituary", if that's a word yet:-