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Music at Marrowbone Books: Danny Diamond
In this first episode of our podcast “Music at Marrowbone Books”, fiddle player Danny Diamond performs at the Dublin bookshop, and chats with Martin Cook in his studio about his music and life.
In this first episode of Music at Marrowbone Books, fiddle player Danny Diamond performs at the Dublin bookshop on 16 Nov. 2017, and chats with Martin Cook in his studio about his music and life.
Diamond is a member of the Nordic/Irish band Slow Moving Clouds, and has also put out a series of acclaimed albums, including NORTH with Conor Caldwell in 2016, which was nominated for Irish Times Traditional Album of the Year and, more recently, Elbow Room.
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