About Me
A biography, if you will...
Michael Peter Flynn, songwriter, composer, producer, educator, multi-instrumentalist and life-long music fan is back after a long hiatus.
The frontman and co-founder (with the late Pat Collins) of the Café Orchestra has returned to active musical duty with a stunning tribute to his late father entitled
Coragh, County Leitrim, 1928.
Notaí
Soundtracks
Contributed to the soundtrack of Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins and the Angelica Huston directed The Mammy (Written by Brendan O Carroll).
Provided music for the Pauline Bewick cartoon The Yellow Man.
Musical Highlights
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A high octane collaboration with the late Shane McGowan on the Yeats poem An Irish Airman Forsees his Death,
Performances at the premiers of Jim Sheridan’s In the Name of the Father and Andrew Lloyd Webbers The Beautiful game, as well as at the Cannes Film Festival.
A magical afternoon with the Hollywood legend Maureen O Hara, an evening with Gregory Peck and Martin Scorsese, and intimate gigs for Brendan Gleeson, Roddy Doyle and the late Tony O Reilly,
Numerous television and radio appearances including The Late Late Show, Kenny Live, Mike Moloney’s late night RTE radio show, John Creedon, and the late Gerry Ryan’s morning show.
Recorded and/or performed live with Gavin Friday, Declan O Rourke, An Emotional Fish, Fiach Moriarty, Cormac Breathnach, Robbie Overson, Rita Connolly, Dolores Keane, Mundy, Frank
Patterson, Dave Murphy, Phil Coulter, The RTE Concert Orchestra, Louis Stewart, Martin Furey, and Pete Holiday.
Partners in crime!
Deep respect and love to:
Paul Moore, Eddie Lee, Des Moore, Dick Farrelly, the late Jimmy Faulkner, Kieran Wilde, Fintan Gilligan, Dave Fleming,
Dav McNamara, Mary Coughlan, Anthony White, Drazen Derek, Ami Hewitt, Sven Buick, Tony Tyrell, Noel Bridgeman, Rob Strong, Oleg Ponomarev, Jimmy Smyth, Paul Moran, Gareth Wall, and so many more whose names will be added in due course!
