Irish singer, songwriter, storyteller and actor Tommy Makem, who teamed with the Clancy Brothers to become stars during the folk music boom, has died of lung cancer. He was 74. Makem died Wednesday in ...

Irish singer, songwriter and storyteller Tommy Makem, who teamed with the Clancy Brothers to become stars during the folk music boom, has died of cancer. He was 74. By The Associated Press Irish ...

When planning their own musical destiny, the Makem Brothers could have become the world’s best tribute band honoring their famous father’s legacy. But they didn’t. Their father was the internationally ...

Irish musician Tommy Makem, who succumbed to lung cancer Wednesday, is credited with helping to popularize traditional Irish music in America and beyond. He is best known for songs such as "Four Green ...

It didn’t take Tommy Makem long to learn that he had made his mark as a folk artist singing songs steeped in the tradition of Ireland. Upon leaving The Clancy Brothers band in 1969 to start a solo ...

Tommy Makem, who has died aged 74, was a banjo-playing folk singer whose work with the Clancy Brothers raised stage-Irish entertainment to remarkable heights, winning a vast audience for stirring ...

THOMAS TOWNSHIP, MI — Rory Makem was 12 when his grandmother Sarah died, but he remembers well the songs she sang, long-forgotten narratives that in the 1950s drew musicologists to her humble Irish ...

With illness slowly lowering the curtain on his historic career, Tommy Makem paused to muse about what inspired him to keep walking onto stages to play traditional Irish tunes and hush audiences with ...

Tommy Makem, a musician, singer and master storyteller who teamed up with the Clancy Brothers to popularize traditional Irish folk music around the world, has died. He was 74. Makem died of lung ...