And then there was one. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem outsold the Beatles in their 1960s heyday while popularizing traditional Irish music in the United States. Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger said ...
DOVER, N.H. — 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. Makem died Wednesday ...