https:\/\/youtu.be\/nJcG1iSZEnI<\/a><\/p>\nTG4 are deeply saddened by the news of Arty McGlynn’s passing. Arty was the recipient of the Gradam Ceoil TG4 Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. He was revered throughout the world of traditional music as a pioneering and influential guitarist.\u00a0 Through his work as a soloist, accompanist, composer and arranger he has helped to bring the guitar right into the mainstream of traditional music and has inspired a generation of musicians to push the boundaries of the music and the instrument.<\/span><\/p>\nBorn into a musical family near Omagh in Co Tyrone in 1944, Arty was surrounded by music and song and was encouraged by his parents to take up music.\u00a0 His father played accordion, his mother was a fiddle player and by the time Arty was five years old he had taken to music like a duck to water and was soon playing reels on the accordion.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen he was eleven, his mother got him a guitar.\u00a0 This encouraged Arty to start along another creative path so he began to explore the world of jazz which appealed to his natural creativity. Influenced by recordings of virtuoso guitarists such as Wes Montgomery and Barney Kessel, Arty rapidly developed an accomplished technique and style that saw him playing professionally with bands by the time he was fifteen. During the 1960\u2019s and 1970\u2019s Arty spent a lot of time on the road touring and in recording studios and this was an intense period of working within an industry that didn\u2019t always make it easy for an individual artist to find time and space to flourish. By the mid 1970\u2019s, Arty felt the need for a change and before long he returned to Irish traditional music.<\/span><\/p>\nIn 1979 he released the classic album\u00a0McGlynn\u2019s Fancy\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0a ground-breaking work that continues to influence the position and direction of the guitar in Irish traditional music. On this album, Arty revealed another side of his musical identity by going back to the well of tradition and the influence and inspiration of local musicians such as John Loughran and Felix Kearney. He also established himself as a thoughtful and creative arranger as well as a composer, and it\u2019s no surprise that since then McGlynn has always been in demand as a soloist, accompanist, producer, arranger and composer.<\/span><\/p>\nArty worked with all of the big names in traditional and folk music including Liam O\u2019Flynn, Christy Moore, D\u00f3nal Lunny, Frances Black, Cathal Hayden, David Hammond, Paul Brady,\u00a0Patrick Street, De Dannan, Planxty<\/em>, Shaun Davey, John Carty and\u00a0The Van Morrison Band<\/em>. \u00a0His production credits include award-winning albums by\u00a0Four Men and A Dog<\/em>, Frances Black and Christy Hennessy.<\/span><\/p>\nArty and his partner Nollaig Casey established a productive and successful career in performance, composition and arranging and have released two highly acclaimed albums-\u00a0Lead the Knave\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Causeway<\/em>\u00a0and their music has featured on film soundtracks including\u00a0Moondance<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Hear My Song<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nAr Dheis D\u00e9 go raibh a anam uasal.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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