Tony MacMahon

Tony MacMahon

Tony MacMahon ( Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland, 1939) is an Irish button accordion player and broadcaster. Among his influences were accordionists Joe Cooley and Sonny Brogan, as well as piper Willie Clancy, fiddler Bobby Casey, and singer and piper Seamus Ennis. [http://music.msn.com/music/artist-biography/tony-macmahon/]

He moved to Dublin in 1957, where he took accordion lessons from Sonny Brogan. Mick Mulcahy has cited him as an influence. [http://www.celticcafe.com/celticcafe/EarleHitchner/Columns/Top10Lists/06_Top10_2005.html]

Discography

* Traditional Irish Accordion. CD re-release 2005.
* I gCnoc na Grai (In Knocknagree) (with Noel Hill, concertina). 1992.
* Aislingí Ceoil (Music Of Dreams) (with Noel Hill, concertina, and Iarla Ó Lionáird, voice).

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