The founding members of Danú (Donnchadh Gough, Dónal Clancy, Daire Bracken, and Benny McCarthy) met in Waterford in Ireland in 1994, and consolidated as a band after performing in the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in 1995.
They are the only band to have been voted Best Traditional Group twice in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, in 2001 and again in 2004 when their version of Tommy Sands's "County Down" also won Best Original Song.
Benny McCarthy is a founding member of Danú; he manages and performs with the band and plays button accordion and melodeon.
An accomplished Uileann piper, flute and whistle player from Dublin, Goff is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Nic Amhlaoibh sang in English and Irish, in the folk and sean-nós traditions, and also played flute and whistle.