Manus Lunny

Biography

Manus Lunny was born in Dublin and reared in Newbridge, Co. Kildare in a family which practised music regularly. He has been living in Co. Donegal for many years now, close to where his mother was born in Ranafast. He toured widely with Barry Moore (now Luka Bloom) as a teenager. He was a member of Scottish/Irish band The Wild Geese which toured Ireland and performed limited concerts in Britain. After the band took a break, Lunny began to tour with Phil Cunningham and future long-term collaborator Andy M. Stewart. They toured as a trio to begin with before branching out into other bands.

Manus is best known as a member of Celtic supergroup Capercaillie. He has composed music for the BBC and various American television broadcasters and was a prominent session musician on two of Ireland's most well known compilations, Éist and Ceol Tacsi.vision recordings.

In collaboration with Phil Cunningham, Lunny has written two pieces for the American record label Windham Hill.

Lunny's work also includes the album Imeall from Altan's Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and the (upcoming) debut album by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh's family band called Na Mooneys (this studio being near the end of recording and close to mixing in early February 2016).

Lunny, Stewart, Cunningham

Other

With Capercaillie