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Theatre lovers from across the country flocked to Bolton today, Saturday, for a chance to buy some of Octagon Theatre’s best costumes.

In Conversation With: Donal Lunny Share A Conversation with Donal Lunny Donal Lunny has been a consistent and hugely influential presence in the emergence of Irish traditional music over the past five decades. As a founding member of both The Bothy Band, his unique approach has altered the genre's sound forever. In this segment of A Celtic Sojourn, host Brian O'Donovan talks with Donal Lunny about his career in music, his incorporation of new instruments in his early days, his partnership with Andy Irvine, and a journey into rock and jazz with the ground-breaking band Moving Hearts. The ...

  Dónal Lunny’s musical curiosity is indefatigable. He’s the ultimate collaborator: always exploring new territories, and well-worn paths too, where he inevitably unearths sparkling new possibilities in old sounds.  Lunny’s steered so many ships through picaresque adventures, including with Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Patrick Street, Usher’s Island, LAPD and Mozaik, many of them with Andy Irvine as his co-pilot. These lockdown days are seeing him steer a different course, through Atlantic waters, in the company of a whole new gathering of musical ...