Seán Smyth is the fiddle player for the traditional Irish

Ireland

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 music group Lúnasa

Lúnasa (band)

-History:Named after Lughnasadh, an ancient Irish harvest festival, Lúnasa was started when Seán Smyth, Trevor Hutchinson, and Donogh Hennessy briefly toured through Scandinavia in 1996. Upon their return to Ireland, they teamed up with Michael McGoldrick and John McSherry to record a few tracks...

. Born in Straide, County Mayo

County Mayo

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, and now living in Galway

Galway

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, Seán is an All-Ireland champion on both fiddle and whistle.

His 1993 solo debut, The Blue Fiddle, was named one of the ten best albums of that year by The Irish Echo

The Irish Echo

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Other recordings on which Seán appears include Ceol Tigh Neachtain, Music at Matt Molloy's, Brendan O'Regan's A Wind of Change, Alan Kelly's Out of the Blue, Mosaic, and Dónal Lunny's Coolfin.