Irish Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, record producer, scholar and folklorist Mick Moloney died on July 27, 2022, in New York City.
Mick Moloney devoted most of his life to the preservation and dissemination of Irish folk music in the United States. He produced numerous Celtic music albums and served as the artistic director for various performing arts tours, including the influential Green Fields of America, an ensemble of Irish and Irish-American musicians, singers, and dancers that toured (and still tours) the United States and abroad.
In 1999, Moloney received a 1999 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Such sad news. He was a mighty man and a mighty friend. God speed Mick.