Tommy Makem?s Life In and With Irish Music

By John Walters on Thursday, July 26, 2001.

Tommy Makem has been performing Irish music for 40 years; he?s a past recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Folk Music Association. He was born in Northern Ireland. He came to America to be an actor, settled in Dover, then moved to New York, where he got caught up in the emerging folk music scene there. In recent years, he?s been trying to promote the Irish song tradition. His web site www.makem.com includes information on his latest projects.

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