Dónal Lunny

✶March 10, 1947

†October 23, 2026

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About their life

Dónal Lunny was an Irish folk musician and producer. He played guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán. As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD, and Usher's Island, he was at the forefront of the renaissance of Irish traditional music for over five decades. In 2025, he was the recipient of the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.

Irish musician and record producer

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Biography from the article Dónal Lunny on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.