Mick Moloney died when he was 77 years old. On social media, there are a lot of tributes to the Irish musician.
Mick Moloney worked in the music business as a teacher, producer, singer, and scholar. He taught music at several universities. He got his Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania.
It breaks my heart and surprises me to hear about his death. The music business is sad right now.
Mick Moloney died at the age of 77
The Irish musician Mick Moloney died at age 77. On social media, his friends, family, and fans are sad about his death.
After hearing about his death on the internet, his fans were sad and sent their deepest condolences to his family.
Mick was born in 1944 in Limerick, Ireland. When he was 16, he began to learn how to play the tenor banjo. When he was a teen, he liked to listen to American folk singers like the Weavers and Burl Ives.
But he didn’t remember hearing a lot of traditional instrumental music where he lived. So, as he got older, he went to the nearby town of Ennis in County Clare, just across the Shannon River, to listen to live music in the pubs.
He would tape the songs so he could study them when he got home. And that’s how he learned to sing traditional songs and play a different musical instrument.
Fans pay tribute to Mick Moloney on Twitter after he died
On Twitter, Mick Moloney’s fans said nice things about him. He spread Irish traditional music and encouraged people, especially women, to listen to it. He had helped make Cherish the Ladies, the first all-female band in the US, happen.
After getting his degree in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania, he devoted himself to recording and promoting traditional Irish music and musicians. You can’t say much about what he did for Irish music in a few words.
By finding and recording talented players, he was a big part of taking Irish music from living rooms and pubs to stages and concert halls. The National Endowment for the Arts says in his bio that he was a founding member of the Irish rock band Green Fields of America in 1977.
He also worked with well-known traditional musicians like Seamus Egan, Liz Carroll, Joanie Madden, Johnny McGreevy, Joe Shannon, Ed Reavy, Mike Rafferty, and many others to record and produce over sixty albums of traditional music in the United States.
He taught Irish music and culture at universities all over the country for the rest of his life. He also set up tours to Ireland every year so that people could learn about Irish folk culture.
A death notice for him hasn’t even been put on the internet yet. So, the information about the burial will be changed in the future.
Where Did Mick Moloney Go?
Mick Moloney died at the age of 77. The reason for his death has not been made public yet.
But everyone will always remember him for what he did for the Irish music business. He was a good singer and musician who had a huge collection of songs and musical pieces from the Irish and Irish-American traditions.