Occupation(s) Musician Nationality Irish | Instruments Accordion | |
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Associated acts Midnight Well, De Dannan, The Boys of the Lough, Skylark, Cara Dillon Website www.mairtinoconnorband.com Music groups Maura O'Connell, Midnight Well Albums The Road West, Blue Is the Colour of Hope, Helpless Heart, The Mist Covered Mountain, Walls & Windows | ||
M irt n o connor tg4 gradam ceoil musician of the year 2015
Máirtín O'Connor is an Irish button accordionist from Galway, Ireland, who began playing at the age of nine, and whose career has seen him as a member of many traditional music groups that include Skylark, Midnight Well, De Dannan, and The Boys of the Lough. A traditional Irish musician, O'Connor was one of the major forces of the music in the world-renowned Riverdance.
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- M irt n o connor tg4 gradam ceoil musician of the year 2015
- The m irt n o connor band plays the road west traditional irish music from livetrad com
- Solo work
- With others
- Session work
- Songs
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His first solo album A Connachtman's Rambles established him as a solo musician and proved a major critical success. O'Connor has released three albums since; Perpetual Motion, released in 1990, Chatterbox, released in 1993, and The Road West, released in 2005.
The m irt n o connor band plays the road west traditional irish music from livetrad com
Solo work
With others
Session work
Songs
Feet of a DancerJust in Time · 1988
A Stor Mo ChroiWandering Home · 1997
Unconstant LoverGangs of New York: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture · 2002