Event Information

MRK Live and MCD presents: Three Dog Night

plus special guests

Thursday 16 October 2025

Buncrana Cinema

Doors 7:30PM

Coinciding with frontman Danny Hutton’s acceptance of the Tip O'Neill Irish Diaspora Award, US rock group Three Dog Night will play a special show in Buncrana Cinema on Thursday 16 October. Tickets available Friday 12th September at 10AM from Tickets.ie.

Iconic American band, THREE DOG NIGHT, now celebrating its 6th decade, boasts some of the most astonishing chart statistics in popular music with 21 consecutive Billboard Top 40 hits, including 3 #1 singles and 12 straight RIAA Certified Gold LPs.

Created in 1968 by Irish-born Danny Hutton, the band was conceived with the intention of featuring three strong vocalists who can sing leads and also blend together in three-part harmony, all supported by a group of great rock musicians. This ultimately became Three Dog Night’s signature sound. From their debut eponymous album, Three Dog Night went on to release 12 gold albums and by 1975, driven by chart-topping songs like “One” “Easy to be Hard”, “Mama Told Me (Not to Come),” “Joy to the World”, “Black and White”, “Shambala” and others, the band had sold over 50 million records. During that time Three Dog Night also toured relentlessly, quickly ramping up from smaller venues to selling out stadiums, virtually establishing the modern concept of a “stadium tour”.

Hutton, a denizen of the Laurel Canyon and Sunset Blvd music scenes, was well established as a songwriter, producer and recording artist. He worked as a writer/producer for the label established by Hanna-Barbera animation studio where he was also immortalized as a character on “The Flintstones”. Hutton had several regional hits as a solo artist including “Roses and Rainbows” and was invited to join the Sonny and Cher tour, where he met Cory Wells, lead singer of the Enemys. They recruited Chuck Negron to complete the sound. Initially the trio planned to work with Danny’s good friend and mentor, Brian Wilson, and record for the Beach Boys label Brother Records.

Wilson had christened them “Redwood” and they began work on several tunes. However, that project was abandoned when the Beach Boys objected to Brian’s songs going to another band. After staging a showcase at Hollywood’s famous Troubadour and garnering the attention of various label heads, Hutton eventually signed the group to ABC Dunhill records. They sought out talented musicians to form their own self-contained band and chose the band’s name --Three Dog Night. The now famous moniker derives from the tale of outback hunters who sleep with their dingoes on cold nights, the coldest being a “three dog night”.

Ticket Information:

Unreserved Seating: €35.00 (Incl Booking Fee)