Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill
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Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill is an acclaimed Irish traditional singer, keyboard player, and composer. She is considered one of the most influential female vocalists in the history of Irish music.[1] Throughout her career, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill has worked with renowned traditional Irish groups such as Skara Brae, The Bothy Band, and Nightnoise. In February 2024 it was announced that she was to be recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 6th RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards.[2]
Early years
Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill was raised in
Tríona is from a prominent musical family. Her paternal aunt, Neillí, contributed nearly 300 folk songs to the folklore collection of University College Dublin. Together with her brother, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, younger sister Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, and multi-instrumentalist Dáithí Sproule, Ní Dhomhnaill formed the folk group, Skara Brae, in which she played the clavinet and sang.[3] Skara Brae specialised in songs sung in the Irish language, many sourced from the Rann na Feirste area where their father's family originated.
The Bothy Band
When Dónal Lunny left the band
As the Bothy Band, the group played its first concert on 2 February 1975, at Trinity College Dublin. Although they were together for only three years, the Bothy Band were one of the first bands to bring the musical traditions of Ireland up to contemporary standards. While the group experienced numerous personnel changes, Ní Dhomhnaill and her brother Micheal were still members when the Bothy Band's final album, Afterhours, was recorded during a concert performance at the Palais des Arts in Paris in 1978. A second live album, Live in Concert, recorded by the BBC in London at the Paris Theatre in July 1976 and Kilburn National Theatre in July 1978, was released in 1995.
She continues to perform with the band following its reunion in 2023.[4]
Career in the United States
By the time the Bothy Band disbanded in 1979, Ní Dhomhnaill had been persuaded by singer/songwriter
Relocating to Portland, Oregon, in the mid-1980s, Ní Dhomhnaill was reunited with her brother Mícheál, who had emigrated to the area from Ireland a few years before. Together with the Cunningham brothers, Johnny and Phil, formerly with the Scottish group Silly Wizard, they toured and recorded two albums as Relativity. They also collaborated with Billy Oskay and Brian Dunning, (Billy Oskay was later replaced by Johnny Cunningham), in a Celtic-tinged new age group, Nightnoise.
Discography
Solo albums
- Tríona (1975)
- The Key's Within (2010)
With Skara Brae
- Skara Brae (1971)
With Clannad
- Clannad 2 (1975)
With The Bothy Band
- The Bothy Band (1975)
- Old Hag You Have Killed Me (1976)
- Out of the Wind (1977)
- After Hours (Live in Paris) (1979)
- Best of the Bothy Band (1983)
- The Bothy Band – Live in Concert (1995)
With Touchstone
- The New Land (1982)
- Jealousy (1984)
With Relativity
- Relativity (1985)
- Gathering Pace (1987)
With Nightnoise
- Something of Time (1987)
- At the End of the Evening (1988)
- The Parting Tide (1990)
- A Windham Hill Retrospective (1992, compilation)
- Shadow of Time (1993)
- A Different Shore (1995)
- The White Horse Sessions (1997)
- Pure Nightnoise (2006, compilation)
With Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill
- Idir an Dá Sholas (with Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill and Dónal Lunny) (1999)
With other artists
- The Gathering (1981)
- Imeall (with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh) (2008)
- Ceol Cheann Dubhrann (2009)
- T with the Maggies (2010)
Compilations
- Celtic Christmas: A Windham Hill Sampler (1995)
- Celtic Christmas Volume II: A Windham Hill Sampler (1996)
- The Rough Guide to Irish Music (1996)
- Celtic Christmas Volume III: A Windham Hill Sampler (1997)
- Celtic Christmas Volume IV: A Windham Hill Sampler (1998)
- "A Celtic Season: A Windham Hill Collection" (1995)
References
- ^ Harris, Craig. "Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill". Allmusic. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ^ "Lifetime Achievement nod for Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill at Folk Awards". RTÉ.ie. 8 February 2024.
- ^ a b Kelly, John (2 October 1999). "Triona is home". The Irish Times.
- ^ Mullan, Kevin (5 December 2023). "Legendary trad group 'The Bothy Band' announce reunion concert". Derry Journal. Retrieved 14 April 2024.