Andy Irvine (musician)

Andy Irvine
Andy Irvine with guitar-bodied bouzouki at Lottes Musiknacht (27 November 2016)
Background information
Birth name	Andrew Kennedy Irvine
Born	(1942-06-14) 14 June 1942 (age 74)
Origin	St John's Wood, London, UK
Genres	Irish English Scottish Old-timey American Bulgarian Balkan Australian folk music
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals mandolin mandola bouzouki hurdy-gurdy guitar-bodied bouzouki harmonica
Years active	1962–present
Associated acts	Sweeney's Men Planxty Paul Brady Dick Gaughan Mosaic Patrick Street East Wind Mozaik LAPD Usher's Island
Website	andyirvine.com

Andrew Kennedy "Andy" Irvine (born 14 June 1942) is a British-born Irish folk musician, singer-songwriter, and a founding member of popular bands Sweeney's Men, Planxty, Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD and Usher's Island. He plays the mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, harmonica and hurdy-gurdy.

Irvine has been influential in folk music for over five decades, during which he recorded a large repertoire of songs and tunes he assembled from books, old recordings and folk-song collectors rooted in the Irish, English, Scottish, Eastern European, Australian and American old-time and folk traditions. He sets these songs to new music and also writes songs about his personal experiences or the lives and struggles of his heroes: Tom Barker, Michael Davitt, Mother Jones, Douglas Mawson, Raoul Wallenberg, and Emiliano Zapata, among others.