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Matt Malloy (born December 6, 1963) is an American actor and producer who has appeared extensively on television, film, and radio. Malloy's break-out performance was his co-starring role alongside Aaron Eckhart and Stacy Edwards in the 1997 black comedy movie In the Company of Men, which he co-executive produced.
Matt was born in Ballaghadereen, County Roscommon, an area well known for flute players. Matt began playing the flute at age 8 and by the age of 18, he had won the All-Ireland Flute Championship and had a string of successes in National Fleadh Cheoil and Oireachtas.
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Jan 12, 2024 · Irish musician and famed flute player Matt Molloy was born on January 12, 1947. For many of the burgeoning flute players looking to start off their traditional music career over the past...
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Matt Molloy (born 12 January 1947) is an Irish musician, from a region known for producing talented flautists. As a child, he began playing the flute and won the All-Ireland Flute Championship at nineteen. Considered one of the most brilliant Irish musicians, his style that adapts piping techniques to the flute has influenced many contemporary ...
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Born in January 1947, in Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon, Matt Molloy started playing the traditional Irish fluteat the age of 8. His father, uncle and grandfather were enthusiastic flute players and once his father saw Molloy’s interest he took it upon himself to teach him. As Molloy himself says, “I soaked up the music as a child. That’s the only ...
Matt moved to Dublin in the late 1960s when the city was undergoing the beginnings of a massive folk music revival. He met Paddy Moloneyat one of the myriad music sessions at which he found himself and the rest is modern day traditional Irish music history! Moloney invited Molloy to join The Chieftains in 1979 but not before Molloy set up one of Ir...
It was just after the release of Planxty’s album After the Break in 1979 when Molloy left Planxty to join The Chieftains, at the behest of Paddy Moloney, only the second non-Dubliner to ever join the group. Matt remains a member of this Grammyaward-winning Irish trad super group to this day. Since then he has also played and worked with Paul Brady,...
Matt Molloy is well known for playing tunes more associated with pipers and Irish fiddle players rather than flute players and he was the first Irish flute player to play ahard D, which has been copied by all top flute players ever since, notably Conal Ó Grada. Akin to an uilleann piper’s hard D, it’s the D played ‘hard’ with loads of edge, complex...
Released in October 2018, Back to the Islandis Matt’s first solo album in over two decades and it looks like he’s only getting better with age! ‘Matt Molloy arrived, in his own right, fully formed on his first solo album … He didn’t need to get any better but, for me, Back to the Island, half a lifetime later, shows an even greater fluidity in his ...
Jan 13, 2024 · Irish musician and famed flute player Matt Molloy was born on January 12, 1947. For many of the burgeoning flute players looking to start off their traditional music career over the past four decades, Matt Molloy has been the one who spurred them on to keep practicing.
Nov 21, 2018 · Matt Molloy, the paragon of Irish traditional flute playing, makes his first solo album in 22 years. Back To The Island is everything lovers of Molloy’s playing could wish for and more.
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