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Flook
Flook
Anglo-Irish band
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Michael McGoldrick
Michael McGoldrick
musician
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Niall Vallely
Niall Vallely
Irish musician
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Cillian Vallely
Cillian Vallely
Irish musician
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Battlefield Band
Battlefield Band
Scottish folk group
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Danú
Danú
band
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Catriona MacDonald
Catriona MacDonald
British musician
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The Boys of the Lough
The Boys of the Lough
band
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De Dannan
De Dannan
band
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Dónal Lunny
Dónal Lunny
Irish musician and record producer
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The Dubliners
The Dubliners
Irish folk band
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Omnia
Omnia
neoceltic pagan folk band
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Frankie Kennedy
Frankie Kennedy
Irish traditional musician
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Moving Hearts
Moving Hearts
band
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Declan Masterson
Declan Masterson
Irish composer
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Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
Irish singer
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Orthodox Celts
Orthodox Celts
band
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Planxty
Planxty
band
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Kíla
Kíla
Irish musical group
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Alan Stivell
Alan Stivell
Breton musician and singer
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Carlos Núñez
Carlos Núñez
Galician musician
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Andy Irvine
Andy Irvine
Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter
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Mägo de Oz
Mägo de Oz
Spanish folk/heavy metal band
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The Pogues
The Pogues
British celtic punk band
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Thijs van Leer
Thijs van Leer
Dutch musician
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Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter
American musician
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Celtic Thunder
Celtic Thunder
band
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The Corrs
The Corrs
Irish musical group
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Altan
Altan
Irish band
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Moya Brennan
Moya Brennan
Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist
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Ricki-Lee
Ricki-Lee
Australian singer
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The Clancy Brothers
The Clancy Brothers
Irish folk band
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Shane MacGowan
Shane MacGowan
Irish singer; lead singer of The Pogues
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Neil Murray
Neil Murray
British musician
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Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
band
Brian Finnegan
British musician

Brian Finnegan

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Brian Finnegan (born 20 August 1969) is an Irish flute and tin whistle player from Armagh.

Finnegan began playing whistle at age 8 and flute at age 10 as a student of the Armagh Pipers Club under the tuition of the Vallely family. He first came to public attention with the Irish group Upstairs in a Tent.

In 1993 he made a solo album When the Party's Over, which was recorded at Redesdale Studios. In 1995 he formed Flook.

Brian Finnegan with Boris Grebenshchikov at the Aquarium concert in Russia, 2012

Originally a three piece who toured as 'Three Nations Flutes' with Sarah Allen and Mike McGoldrick, they later added Ed Boyd on guitar forming Flook. When Mike left the band in 1997, John Joe Kelly (a frequent guest musician) was added as a band member on bodhrán. Flook continue to tour all over the world with fans across the globe. In 2006, Flook was awarded best band in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. In 2019, the band returned from an extended hiatus with the release of their fourth studio album "Ancora". Brian is a frequent tutor for Folkworks and Burwell Bash where he has been a tutor since 1994.

He tours regularly across the USA, Latin America and Ireland with guitarist William Coulter with whom he released the EP 'Toward the Sun' in 2015. He also plays with an influential Russian rock group Aquarium, both live and on their studio albums (since approximately 2009). He worked on cross genre project Parallelogram.

As of 2010, Brian plays with his own trio, with guitarist Ian Stephenson and drummer Jim Goodwin. They formed a four-piece, KAN, with those musicians and fiddler Aidan O'Rourke until disbanding in 2014. A solo album, The Ravishing Genius of Bones, was released in 2010.