Luke Daniels (musician)

Luke Daniels (born 1973) is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer who grew up in Sonning Common, South Oxfordshire and is now based in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Early years
Daniels grew up playing the melodeon in the Irish tradition and won the 1992 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award.

Career
Following the release of his first solo album Tarantella in 1994 he toured with a variety of artists including Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and De Dannan. Daniels toured throughout North America with the Riverdance show.

Daniels is a multi-instrumentalist singer and composer, as well as button accordion he plays guitar, piano and tin whistle. He has toured with the Cara Dillon band, with Syrian oud player Rihab Azar and collaborated with celebrated English folk musician Nancy Kerr. In 2016 Daniels restored an original Polyphon machine which he used alongside original compositions.

Discography

 * 1994 Tarantella 
 * 2002  Above the Bellow (Luke Daniels and Jonathan Preiss)
 * 2004  Secret Sessions 
 * 2006  Lost Music of the Gaels 
 * 2009  Art of Trio 
 * 2011  The Mighty Box 
 * 2013  Mother Glasgow 
 * 2014  What’s Here What’s Gone 
 * 2015  Tribute to William Hannah 
 * 2016  Revolve and Rotate 
 * 2017  Making Waves 
 * 2017  Singing Ways to Feel More Junior 
 * 2019  Old Friends and Exhausted Enemies 
 * 2022  Luke Daniels and the Cobhers