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Set 2: From Ballinakill to Ballinascreen.
In 1988, while playing with Tim Lyons in England I had the privilege of meeting the East Galway, London based fiddler Lucy Farr who arrived to renew acquaintance with Tim at our gig at Nettlebed Folk Club in Oxfordshire. She gave me recordings of tunes she composed and invited us to play them, which we did delightedly for several years. Now, by way of cementing the pledge, here are two of Lucy’s slides from c. 1972, in a style which is a mix of her own East Galway lonesomeness, and her fiddle-playing colleague Julia Clifford’s Sliabh Luachra lift; ‘The Shoemaker’ is the first, followed by ‘Music on the Wind’. The reel that follows is ‘The Banba’, in a flute-friendly fingering, a title that was common in post-independence Ireland, it being one of the ancient names for the island. Brian O’Higgins had The Banba Press, as had a famous Dublin toy- and book-shop chain, the descendant of which still carries the name. Here ‘Banba’ commemorates a céilí band in which my maternal grandfather, fiddle-player Frank Kelly , played for pre-WW2 céilís at The Banba Hall in Draperstown/Ballinascreen, Co. Derry. A joiner by trade, Frank made his own fiddle, not surprising indeed, as his reputed ancestors were harp-makers, among them John Kelly who made the ‘Bunworth harp’ in the end of the seventeen hundreds. Frank’s son, Brendan made crafted, artistic harp models in Toronto, to where he had emigrated in the 1950s, and the other son, Frank, made full-size harps there in the 1990s.

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from Merrijig Creek, track released January 1, 2021
Fintan, Sheena and Caoimhín.

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Fintan Vallely Dublin, Ireland

Performer on flute, Ireland and world-wide since 1967
Workshop teacher on flute - Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy since 1986, Cruinniú na Bhfliúit Ballyvourney, and Tocane, France; and Friday Harbor, Minneapolis and Catskills, USA.
• Five CD albums of solo and group music
• Written /edited 16 books
• Hundreds of reviews
• Three major conferences organised
• Scores of conference papers and articles
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