Mick Moloney combines the careers of folklorist, musicologist, arts presenter and advocate, record producer and professional musician and college professor. He is the author of "Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish American History Through Song" published by Random House in February 2002 with an accompanying CD on Shanachie Records. He holds a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, and Villanova University and currently teaches in the Irish Studies Program at New York University. He has recorded and produced over forty albums of traditional music and helped produce and direct scores of festivals and concerts all over America. Mick also served as the artistic director for several major arts tours including The Green Fields of America, an ensemble of Irish musicians, singers and dancers which toured across the United States on several occasions. He has hosted three nationally syndicated series of folk music on American Public Television; was a consultant, performer and interviewee on the Irish Television special "Bringing It All Back Home"; a participant, consultant and music arranger of the PBS documentary film "Out of Ireland"; and a performer on the 1998 PBS special "The Irish in America: Long Journey Home." In September 1999 he was awarded the National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts - the highest official honor a traditional artist can receive in the United States.
