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Thomas “Tommy” Makem (November 4, 1932 – August 1, 2007) was an internationally celebrated Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He played the long-necked 5-string banjo, guitar, tin whistle, and bagpipes, and sang in a distinctive baritone. He was sometimes known as “The Bard of Armagh” (taken from a traditional song of the same name) and “The Godfather of Irish Music”.
Makem was born and raised in Keady, County Armagh (the “Hub of the Universe” as Makem always said), in Northern Ireland. His mother, Sarah Makem, was an important source of traditional Irish music, who was visited and recorded by, among others, Diane Guggenheim Hamilton, Jean Ritchie, Peter Kennedy and Sean O’Boyle. His father, Peter Makem, was a fiddler who also played the bass drum in a local pipe band named “Oliver Plunkett”, after a martyr of the Cromwell age. His brother and sister were folk musicians also. Young Tommy Makem, from the age of 8, was member of the St. Patrick’s church choir for 15 years where he sang Gregorian chant and motets. He didn’t learn to read music but he made it in his “own way”.|He started to work at 14 as a...
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Top 10 Tommy Makem Songs
The Irish Rover
Whiskey, You're The Devil - Live
Kitty Magee
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
Courtin' in the Kitchen
The Little Beggarman
Mrs. Mcgrath
The Jug Of Punch - Live
Irish Rover
The Lowlands of Holland
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Top 10 Tommy Makem Albums
The Tommy Makem Songbag
Irish Drinking Songs
Irish Folk Songs and Airs
The Legendary Tommy Makem Collection
The Makem & Clancy Concert
From The Archives
Live At the Irish Pavilion
Rolling Home
From The Archive
Lonesome Waters
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