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"Molly Malone" is the essential St. Patrick's Day pub song and no self-respecting Irish songs' playlist is complete without this time-honored folk tune. Period. Period. 'Danny Boy' by the Irish Tenors
Reference to the Irish fiddle can also be found in John Dunton's Teague Land: or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish (1698) he says “on Sundays and Holydays, all the people resorted with the piper and fiddler to the village green" Thomas Dineley visited Ireland in 1680 he says in regards to music "with piper, harper, or fidler, revell and dance ...
An older style of singing called sean-nós ("in the old style"), which is a form of traditional Irish singing was still found, mainly for very poetic songs in the Irish language. [ 14 ] From 1820 to 1920 over 4,400,000 Irish emigrated to the US, creating an Irish diaspora in Philadelphia, Chicago (see Francis O'Neill ), Boston, New York and ...
"Arthur McBride" – an anti-recruiting song from Donegal, probably originating during the 17th century. [1]"The Recruiting Sergeant" – song (to the tune of "The Peeler and the Goat") from the time of World War 1, popular among the Irish Volunteers of that period, written by Séamus O'Farrell in 1915, recorded by The Pogues.
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.
Kevin Burke (born 1950) is an Irish master fiddler considered one of the finest living Irish fiddlers. [1] [2] [3] For nearly five decades he has been at the forefront of Irish traditional music and Celtic music, [4] performing and recording with the groups The Bothy Band, Patrick Street, and the Celtic Fiddle Festival. [1]
Frankie Gavin was born in 1956 in Corrandulla, County Galway, from a musical family; his parents and siblings being players of the fiddle and accordion. As a child he played the tin whistle from the age of four and, later, the flute. He received some formal training in music, but his musical ability on the fiddle is mainly self-taught. [1]
Don Meade wrote in The Irish Voice (New York, Jan. 2001) that Bays is "still best known to many for his beautiful guitar accompaniment on fiddler Martin Hayes' early recordings, [but] Randal is himself a marvelous fiddler, one of the best in the country."