Harry O'Donoghue is an Irish

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Childhood

Harry was born in 1954 in the town of

Drogheda Drogheda ( , ; , meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin. It is located on the Dublin–Belfast corridor on the east coast of Ireland, mostly in County Louth ...

on the banks of the river Boyne on the East coast of

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Early career

At age twenty, Harry began playing

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and bodhran and was soon performing with local folk groups. In 1979, Harry founded the group Terra Nova and later that summer they won a prestigious award for Best Folk group at the Dublin International Music Festival. Within a year, the group was touring in

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and secured a recording contract with Polydor Records in 1985.

Solo

After Terra Nova performed their last concert in Augusta Georgia in 1987, Harry embarked on what was to become a very successful solo career. During the next few years he concentrated on songwriting and released several critically acclaimed albums throughout the nineties. Harry has performed, by invitation, with the Savannah Symphony and has shared the bill with such international recording artists as

Mary Black Mary Black (born 23 May 1955) is an Irish folk singer. She is well known as an interpreter of both traditional folk and modern material which has made her a major recording artist in her native Ireland. Background Mary Black was born into a m ...

, Andy M. Stewart
Cathie Ryan
The Fureys, Natalie Mac Master
Danny Doyle
The Wolfe Tones, The Shannon Castle Singers
Tommy Makem
and others. He performs throughout the U.S and Ireland in a variety of settings from concerts to festivals, clubs, private events, conventions and singer/songwriter showcases. Harry also hosts singing workshops, passing along folksongs in the oral tradition and customizes and guides tour groups to Ireland each year.

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has been Harry's home for many years now and it's from there he co-produces and hosts the Green Island Radio Show, a popular weekly Georgia Public Broadcasting program highlighting Celtic music in its many forms; traditional, folk and contemporary.

Discography

*Live and Well (1989) *Diamonds (1995) *O'Donoghue - Folksinger (1996) *It'll Be Alright on the Night (1998) *Best Foot Forward (1999) *A Christmas Postcard (2000) *How's It Goin'? (2002) *Sincerely (2005) *Live From the'Boro (2006) *Nollaig (2007) *A Splash of No Regrets (2010) *Live and Just as Well (2010) *Terra Nova (2014) *Stillness in the Air (2014) *Seasons of Love (2015)

External links

Harry O'Donoghue home pageSavannah Irish Festival
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