Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill
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Ní Dhomhnaill in 2005
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill |
| Born | Kells, County Meath, Ireland |
| Genres |
Irish Traditional Celtic Folk |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, pianist, composer |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Labels |
Green Linnet Gael-Linn Records Windham Hill Mulligan Records |
| Associated acts |
Skara Brae The Bothy Band Touchstone Nightnoise T with the Maggies |
| Website | www |
Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish traditional singer, pianist, and composer, considered one of the most influential female vocalists in the history of Irish music. She is famed for her work with traditional Irish groups such as Skara Brae, The Bothy Band, Relativity, Touchstone, and Nightnoise.
Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill was raised in Kells, County Meath. Her paternal grandparents moved there from the Rann na Feirste Gaeltacht of Donegal in the 1930s.
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 first attracted attention with their folk group, Skara Brae, that specialised in songs sung in the Irish language, many sourced from the Rann na Feirste area where their father's family originated.
When bouzouki player Dónal Lunny left the Irish folk band Planxty in 1975 and launched a new record label called Mulligan, one of his first projects was to form a band to accompany accordion player Tony MacMahon on a series of shows for Irish National Radio. Along with uilleann pipe player Paddy Keenan, flute and whistle player Matt Molloy, and fiddle player Paddy Glackin, Ní Dhomhnaill and her brother became charter members. Initially named Seachtar (which is Irish Gaelic for "seven people"), the group changed its name to the Bothy Band after the departure of MacMahon.
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