I don't have the magazine here, Jed, but it's only a couple of days since I read the interview, so I'll see what I can remember (with apologies to Dan for what I forget - maybe he'll fill in the gaps). I've just realised that though the Irish Music site lists the contents of each issue, it doesn't have the actual articles.

The interview is a sort of potted retrospective of Dan's life, and richly deserved tribute, starting with the early family life and enforced emigration to the states (via the UK, and I think Canada).

Obviously brother Liam is credited as a major influence in steering Dan towards traditional songs. Joe Heaney is another who gets a mention. (Later Joe was involved, along with Lou Killen and others, in setting up their pioneering singing circle.) Planxty's "neo-traditional" approach was another huge influence.

The piece recounts Dan's founding of an acclaimed folk club, first in Manhattan (Bells of Hell?) and later at the Eagle Tavern. And it mentions a great collection of British and Irish songs, ("Bunch of Roses"?) which I have often seen, but without realising it was Dan who put it together.

Another thing I hadn't realised was that Liam's brother did s Sibelius-like total disappearance from the scene for 20(?) years. I think it was his family (wife?) and friends, including Bob Conroy and Brian Conway, who lured him back.

Nowadays he spends part of the year with a band that plays on a tall ship, presumably somewhere on the NY waterfront, and the rest of the time as a double-act with Conroy, with whom he spends a lot of time touring venues in Ireland (which is where I have seen them). According to the article, they will be doing various festivals in UK and Europe in the next few months. He gave a really good plug for the Inishowen seminar, which is a yearly event in Co Donegal.

His earlier CD got favourable mention, but I can't remember what it was called. Yet another detail I didn't know, and crucially significant for me, was that Dan's club at the Eagle Tavern was the first venue to book the very Queen of the Whistle, the one and only, the incomparable Joannie Madden. Thanks, Dan!