The Clancy Brothers
The Clancy Brothers were an influential Irish folk group that initially developed as a part of the American folk music revival.
Most popular in the 1960s, they were famed for their trademark Aran jumpers and are widely credited with popularising Irish traditional music in the United States and revitalising it in Ireland, paving the way for an Irish folk boom with groups like the Dubliners and the Wolfe Tones.
The Clancy Brothers, Patrick" Paddy" Clancy, Tom Clancy, and Liam Clancy, are best known for their work with Tommy Makem, recording almost two dozen albums together as The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
Makem left in 1969, the first of many changes in the group's membership.
The most notable subsequent member to join was the fourth Clancy brother, Bobby.
The group continued in various formations until Paddy Clancy's death in 1998.
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem significantly influenced the young Bob Dylan and other emerging artists, including Christy Moore and Paul Brady.
The group was famous for its often lively arrangements of old Irish ballads, rebel and drinking songs, sea shanties, and other traditional music.
Tradition Records
Tradition Records was an American record label from 1955 to 1966 that specialized in folk music.
The label was founded and financed by Guggenheim heiress Diane Hamilton in 1956.
Its president and director was Patrick" Paddy" Clancy, who was soon to join his brothers Liam and Tom Clancy and Tommy Makem, as part of the new Irish folk group, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
Liam Clancy designed the company's maple leaf logo.
Columbia University Professor of Folklore Kenneth Goldstein was also involved in the early creation of the company, which operated out of Greenwich Village, New York, United States.
With artists like The Clancy Brothers, Odetta, and Jean Ritchie growing in popularity during the American folk music revival, the label began to generate good profits.
When The Clancy Brothers signed with Columbia Records in 1961, Paddy Clancy ceased to run the day- to- day operations of the company.
In 1966, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, as owners of the label, sold the Tradition catalogue to Everest Records.
Everest reissued Tradition recordings without any notes in haphazard permutations.
Much of the Tradition catalogue has been reissued on CD and/ or for digital download.
For many years John Jacob Niles received little acclaim, but following the broadcast of the Bob Dylan documentary" No Direction Home", there was a surge in the demand for his albums.
His two albums on Tradition were reissued.
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a private IP management fund, acquired the exclusive worldwide rights to the Tradition Records catalog as part of its acquisition of the Everest Record Group of labels.
A Spontaneous Performance Recording
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The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, sometimes simply called A Spontaneous Performance, is a 1961 collection of traditional Irish folk songs performed by The Clancy Brothers with frequent collaborator Tommy Makem.
It was their first album for Columbia Records.
The group would continue to record for Columbia for the remainder of the 1960s.
The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1962 for Best Folk Recording.
The LP had originally been considered a self- titled album with" A Spontaneous Performance Recording!" merely a description of the record for the cover.
It is referred to as" The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem" in the original reviews of the album and for its Grammy Nomination.
It later became known as" A Spontaneous Performance Recording" to avoid confusion, because the group already had released a less popular album entitled" The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem" on the little Tradition Records label that Paddy Clancy ran.
One of the leaders of the American folk music revival, Pete Seeger, played the banjo on the recording.
In 2007 on the BBC, influential folk singer and songwriter Christy Moore chose the song," Brennan on the Moor," from this album as one of his desert island discs.
He introduced the song by noting," The Clancy Brothers changed my life," because through them he discovered a love for Irish folk music.
The Clancy Brothers' Greatest Hits
The Clancy Brothers' Greatest Hits is an original studio album of some of The Clancy Brothers' most popular hits re-recorded with Louis Killen.
The Clancys had performed each of these songs previously with different arrangements with their former partner Tommy Makem in the 1960s.
This was the group's first of three albums for Vanguard Records, their last album with Killen, and the final album they would release for almost a decade.
The recording was initially released as a double album.
A backing musician on a few of the tracks is Don McLean, best known for his song" American Pie".
In 2000, Vanguard re-released the album on a CD entitled The Best of the Vanguard Years.
In addition to including the entirety of the" Greatest Hits" album, the CD included four previously unreleased tracks from the Clancy Brothers' follow- up album" Live!"( 1982).
Sweeney's Men
Sweeney's Men was an Irish traditional band.
They emerged from the mid-1960s Irish roots revival, along with groups such as The Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers.
The founding line- up in May 1966 was Johnny Moynihan, Andy Irvine and" Galway Joe" Dolan.
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (album)
The Clancy Brothers& Tommy Makem is a collection of traditional Irish songs performed by The Clancy Brothers with frequent collaborator Tommy Makem.
It was their third album and their final one for Tradition Records, the small label that the eldest Clancy brother Paddy Clancy ran.
After this, the group recorded exclusively for Columbia Records until 1970.
This was the first album for which they used the group name, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
Their prior recordings had simply listed their individual names on the cover.
Finbarr Clancy
Finbarr Clancy (born 5 March 1970) is an Irish folk singer and musician.
Early in his career he performed with The Clancy Brothers.
, he is a member of the group The High Kings.
Older But No Wiser
Older But No Wiser is a 1995 album by the Irish folk group, The Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell.
This was the Clancy Brothers' final album, released almost four decades after the group's first album," The Rising of the Moon".
It was also their third album for Vanguard Records.
The songs on" Older But No Wiser" are notable for their thicker musical accompaniment than was typical of Clancy recordings, as well their first use of female back- up singers.
This was the only album that Paddy Clancy, Bobby Clancy, Liam Clancy, and their nephew, Robbie O'Connell, recorded together.
For all previous Clancy Brothers recordings, the group had different line- ups.
Mummypowder
Mummypowder are a four- piece alternative rock band from Helsinki, Finland.
Their frontman and the only remaining original member is the singer, guitar player and songwriter Janne Lehtinen.
Come Fill Your Glass with Us
Come Fill Your Glass with Us: Irish Songs of Drinking& Blackguarding is a collection of traditional Irish drinking songs that first brought
The Clancy Brothers and their frequent collaborator Tommy Makem to prominence.
It was their second album and was released in 1959 by Tradition Records, a small music label run by one of the Clancy Brothers, Paddy Clancy.
A reviewer for the folk and world music magazine," Dirty Linen", later called this the album that" launched the Clancy Brothers to fame in the Americas and helped launch a revival of interest in traditional Irish music."

Question: Are both bands, The Clancy Brothers and Mummypowder, from the same country?
Answer: no