Just saw the names of the main winners for the TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards 2017 -
Traditional Musician of the Year - Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh - Fiddle- (Altan)
Young Musician of the Year - Liam O’Brien - Concertina
Composer of the year - Michael Rooney
Traditional Singer of the Year - Rita Gallagher
Outstanding contribution -Mick O’Connor - Flute
Lifetime Achievement Award - Donal Lunney
"Lifetime Achievement Award - Donal Lunney"
Blimey! That’s like Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Good on him!
*Lunny
He strummed along with the best of them……..didn’t he?
…And produced recordings for the rest. His influence and involvement is hard to overstate.
Such talented musicians, maybe one day I will be among them…
I think we’re all in the same boat on that Kellie, just have to keep up the practice and the playing, and who knows where we might end up?
Not me trolling donal lunny i promise, but didn’t ‘the drone’ do a yoke about donal standing behind things. Had to laugh. (While ducking icoming thrown bouzoukis)
There we have it:
http://www.thedronenews.org/lunny-standing-behind-things
In and out of doors an’ …. giddy up! (to paraphrase father ted’s eurovision entry)
Don’t knock my lovely horse!
Will Donal Lunny go and get it? (as someone mentioned Bob Dylan…)