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Moloney Is Still a Legend

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Mike Farragher
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IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 1:05 AM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 5:45 PM
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Paddy Moloney has never let grass grow under his feet. He has traveled around the globe and back with the Chieftains, maintaining a pace that would wither a man many decades younger.

So, why should Christmas be any different? "I can smell the Christmas goose cooking in the next room," he exclaims dreamily during our brief chat over the weekend. "We're having Christmas early with my sister and her family because I am off to Galicia to do some shows. I hear some royalty will be there, so that's always fun."

In between, Moloney has been overseeing a BBC documentary on the Chieftains, which features adoring interviews with the likes of Keith Richards, Sting, Elvis Costello and Andrea Corr.

There's so much to talk about with this legend that it's easy to forget that the publicist has arranged this chat to promote the soundtrack to the film The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. Composed by James Newton Howard, the soundtrack accompanies a Celtic infused family film that is generating a lot of steam ahead of its release on Christmas Day.

"It's a lovely story with some gorgeous animation," Moloney says. "It's the story of a boy from Scotland who finds an egg and nurses this creature in the bathtub until the mammy shoos the boy off and this baby develops into this wonderful sea creature that becomes the Loch Ness Monster. It's a touching story and I am very proud to be associated with such a great family film."

Moloney, who seems to know everyone who is anyone in the music business, happened upon Newton Howard during a pre-Oscars party honoring Irish achievements in film.

"I went there to party with my old pal, Van Morrison, who was being honored there," he explains. "James got to talking about this film and I went over to see him because he wanted to see what I thought of the music. He put up a scene and I whipped out a tin whistle. 'Perhaps it needs a bit of this?' I said to him. From there, we began collaborating."

Moloney joined the band with a harp orchestra in Abbey Road Studios, where they met up with the London Symphony Orchestra. In that famed studio, the musicians created a Celtic symphony of lush music that couches Moloney's emotive flute.

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