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The album was named the year's top traditional album by The Irish Times. [3] Canny died on 28 June 2008. He was predeceased by his wife, Philomena, and was survived by his daughters, Mary and Rita. A nephew, Martin Hayes, has captured the All Ireland fiddle championship six times and continues to record and perform traditional Irish music. [3]
From a violin player in the neighboring town of Glin, he learned the rudiments of the fiddle and how to read and write music; from his mother he learned the Irish traditional style. [1] His early repertoire was learned both from written sources such as the Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music, Ker, and O'Neill's 1001, and from local ...
The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-8802-5. a b Between the Jigs and the Reels: The Donegal Fiddle Tradition C Mac Aoidh - 1994 - Drumlin Publications; Donegal and Shetland Fiddle Music D McLaughlin, Irish Traditional Music Society - 1992 - Irish Traditional Music Society, University College, Cork
Ivers was born in New York City of Irish-born parents, grew up in the Bronx and attended St. Barnabas High School. [1] She spent summers in Ireland and took up the fiddle at the age of nine. Her teacher was the Irish fiddler Martin Mulvihill. [2] She toured with Mick Moloney's band The Green Fields of America, founded in 1977.
Frank Quinn was an Irish-American musician and bandleader, and a pioneering recording artist of traditional songs and arrangements of Irish melodies. He played the fiddle, the melodeon accordion and was a vocalist.
James Kelly (Irish: Séamus Ó Ceallaigh; born 1957) is an Irish fiddler, composer, collector, researcher and teacher from Dublin. [1] [2] He is the son of County Clare fiddler, John Kelly, and has played with various groups including Patrick Street and Planxty. [1]
With Roaring 20s Irish Orchestra. By Heck: A Toast to the 1920s (2018) With De Dannan. De Danann (1975) The 3rd Irish Folk Festival In Concert (1976) Selected Jigs Reels and Songs (1977) The Mist Covered Mountain (1980) Star-Spangled Molly (1981) (see The De Dannan Collection) Best of De Dannan (1981) Song For Ireland (1983) The Irish RM (1984 ...
Patrick J. Killoran (1903–1965) was an Irish traditional fiddle player, bandleader and recording artist. He is regarded, along with James Morrison and Michael Coleman, as one of the finest exponents of the south Sligo fiddle style in the "golden age" of the ethnic recording industry of the 1920s and 1930s.