Aoife Clancy (born in Carrick-on-Sur, County Tipperary) is an Irish folk musician. For a time in the mid-1990s she was a member of
Cherish the Ladies. In the early 2000s, she was a member of
Faire Winds (with
Bill Jones and
Anne Hills). The daughter of Bobby Clancy, an original member of
The Clancy Brothers, she began guitar at age ten and by age fourteen was playing with her father in their local pubs. In 1995 she was asked to join
Cherish the Ladies, a much admired Irish American group. She toured extensively doing no less than two hundred dates a year throughout the United Stat…
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