New Documentary about Mícheál Ó Domhnaill
TG4 will broadcast a new documentary on 12 October about guitar player, singer, composer, arranger, producer and member of the Bothy Band, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, who died in July 2006 at the age of fifty-four after a fall in his home in Dublin.
Combining archival footage with commentary from his sisters Maighréad and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, and the likes of Dónal Lunny, Paddy Glackin, Matt Molloy, Paddy Keenan and Kevin Burke, The Bothy Boy is said to present a sense of Ó Domhnaill the musician and of the Irish music scene of the 1970s and 80s.
It includes material not just from Bothy Band tours of Ireland, the UK and USA, but also of his time in Relativity (with a Scottish duo) and in Nightnoise, with American violinist Billy Oskay.
Bríd Maloney of Clear Slate Television, who produced the programme, said: ‘He was, without doubt, one of the great legends of traditional music, but he also had a very successful musical career when based in America.’
Published on 3 October 2011