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Steve Cooney
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| Birth name |
Stephen Cooney |
| Born |
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres |
Irish music, classical music |
| Occupation(s) |
- Musician
- composer
- producer
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| Instruments |
Guitar, bass guitar, didgeridoo, keyboards |
| Years active |
1969–present |
| Associated acts |
Antonio Breschi, Clannad, Altan, The Chieftains, Andy Irvine, Little River Band, Sinéad O'Connor |
Stephen Cooney is an Australian-Irish musician.
Early life
Cooney was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where he learned to play the didgeridoo, and from the age of seventeen he played in a number of rock bands. He is of Irish ancestry.
Career
Cooney moved to Ireland in the early 1980s, and since then he played, noticeably the guitar, over 60 albums with Irish artists, such as the Irish band Altan, The Chieftains, Clannad and Andy Irvine. He also composes his own material and is a producer/arranger of traditional music.
In 2019, he recorded and published at Claddagh Records the album Ceol Ársa Cláirsí:Tunes of the Irish Harpers for Solo Guitar.
Personal life
Cooney was married to Sinéad O'Connor from 2010 to 2011.
Selected discography
- With Franciscus Henri
- With Mándu
- To the Shores of His Heaven (1974)
- With Little River Band
- With Captain Rock
- With Seona McDowell
- Down Country Roads on Gossamer Wings (1978)
- With Sixto Rodriguez
- With Jake Walton
- Sunlight and Shade (1983)
- Songs from the Gurdy Man - Collection (1990)
- With Redgum
- With Judy Small
- With Antonio Breschi
- Ode to Ireland (1982)
- Tierras, Mares y Memorias (1986)
- With Dermot Morgan
- With Geraldine MacGowan and Anne Conroy
- With The Chieftains
- A Chieftains Celebration (1989)
- The Long Black Veil (1995)
- Santiago (1996)
- Water from the Well (2002)
- With Sean Maguire
- With Gerry O'Connor
- Time to Time (1991)
- Myriad (1998)
- With Áine Uí Cheallaigh
- Idir Dha Chomhairle - In Two Minds (1992)
- With Tommy Sands
- Beyond the Shadows (1992)
- The Heart's a Wonder (1995)
- With Sharon Shannon
- With Altan
- Island Angel (1993)
- Blackwater (1996)
- Runaway Sunday (1997)
- Another Sky (2000)
- The Blue Idol (2002)
- Local Ground (2005)
- Donegal (2024)
- With Liam O'Flynn
- Out to an Other Side (1993)
- The Given Note (1995)
- With Déanta
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- With Máirtín O'Connor
- With Martin Hayes
- With Dermot Byrne
- With Matt Molloy
- With Dordán
- Christmas Capers (1996)
- Celtic Aire (1999)
- With Alan Kelly
- With Various Artists
- The Twentieth Anniversary Collection (1996)
- Sult - Spirit of the Music (1996)
- Celtic Christmas III (1997)
- Magic Irish Romances (1998)
- Celtic Christmas - Silver Anniversary Edition (2001)
- Beginner's Guide to Ireland (2005)
- With Séamus Begley
- With The Cassidys
- Singing from Memory (1998)
- With Kíla
- With Andy Irvine
- Rain on the Roof (1996)
- Way Out Yonder (2001)
- With Tim O'Brien
- With Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin
- An Dealg Óir (2002)
- Áilleacht (2003)
- Seven Daughters of the Sea (2024)
- With Secret Garden
- Once in a Red Moon (2002)
- Earthsongs (2004)
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