The world of folk and traditional music lost one of its stalwarts this past May. Patrick Sky was a fixture in the Greenwich Village scene of the 1960s and then became a devotee and virtuoso player of the uniquely Irish instrument, the Uilleann Pipes.
Brian O'Donovan pays tribute to one of the genre's beloved characters. Mick Moloney, a close friend of Sky's, from the late 1960s, shares some memories. He tells a fascinating story of the then Greenwich Village fixture becomming enamored instantly when first introduced to the pipes at the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
