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What's everyone's favorite Irish music group?

What's everyone's favorite Irish or Celtic group? I like John Doan, Celtic Woman, and The Wolfe Tones. ("You'll Never Beat the Irish" by Wolfe Tones is absolutely great!) I'm looking for all kinds of new groups, so be sure to throw any names into the discussion when you feel like doing so. Thanks, people!

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Permalink Reply by jim-Greece on March 19, 2008 at 9:07pm: Well, my favorite Irish band is Dervish!! I think that I am the biggest fan of them in Greece! I like also Flook & Danu...

So my results,
1) Dervish
2) Flook
3) Danu
4) Enya (although she is single...); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cristina McGough on March 19, 2008 at 9:52pm: Top 5

1. the Chieftains
2. The Clancy Brothers
3. Altan
4. Dubliners
5. Brobdingnagian Bards
6. The Irish Rovers; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alexandre Boulet on March 20, 2008 at 1:28am: it really good band that Irisheyes (Erin) have made me discover is Solas ( meaning light in english ) it mainly violin, guitar and voice with beat... it really great there even a song where they speak french... french is my mother tongue so i was pleased by earing them sing on a sea of fleur de lys

Hayley Westenra is not a band but she great. she from the celtic woman group, now she doiing music solo.

Slan Alex; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mick W on March 21, 2008 at 4:45pm: There are many good Irish or Celtic groups out there, these are a few of my favourites.
1) Lunasa
2) Danu
3) Altan
4) Chieftains; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alan Parker(Australia) on March 23, 2008 at 10:01am: Sharon Shannon alone is absolutely wonderful but when she surrounds herself with people such as Mike McGoldrick,Dezi Donnelly and Jim Murray as she recently did here in Australia, my admiration of Irish Music becomes total.

Lunasa also set a standard which I find hard to discover elsewhere.
Lots of others also make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up & my eyes water but the above people stand out being recent visitors to Queensland.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brad. J. Steer on March 24, 2008 at 8:07pm: I really like The Moving Hearts, The Cranberries, Christy Moore and
Give me a slow air played on the fiddle so true and pure it could nearly make you cry.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Felicia on March 27, 2008 at 3:32pm: Lunasa
Chieftains
Cranberries
Corrs
U2; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Felicia on March 27, 2008 at 3:32pm: Flook is hot too!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by SweetPea31 on April 4, 2008 at 4:34am: A Nashville group called the Nosey Flynn
Celtic Woman
U2 (of course); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Felicia on April 4, 2008 at 2:39pm: I will have to look for Nosey Flynn--just the name signifies fun.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by SweetPea31 on April 4, 2008 at 5:00pm: They are! They play at Dan McGuinness Pubs in Nashville. I did find a song of theirs on UTube. You just type in Nosey Flynn and it should come up, they also have a MySpace page.; ▶ Reply to This