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Set 5: The Humours of Blundell’s Grange.
This celebrates my primary-school entry to enlightenment in a fiercely distinctive townland of characters, where I was moulded by my rigorous uncle into scholarship material for secondary education, escape to university, careering eventually into music and commentary thereon. I grew up off a long lane in that North Armagh country, celebrated in the first tune ‘The Dark Loanen’, a narrow communications link so called on account of its being bounded by high, hawthorn hedges which met at the top, making it a veritable tunnel in summer. My cousin Niall was so taken by its name that he composed a tune for it, played here in honour of the ancestral homestead. The following reel, ‘The Miltown Collector’, is a tribute to Tom Munnelly, an erudite and witty song-collector who made Miltown Malbay his home, engaging thoroughly, and beyond the call, with his subjects to the great, memorable pleasure of all. He it was who brought the Traveller John Reilly’s songs into modern light, and, via the Folklore Department of UCD, performed a behind-the-scenes, vital function in preserving sung songs and linking them to printed texts. The final reel jumps tempo again, ’Maisie Friel’s, still in Co. Clare, a tune with a boisterous, mischievous feel of crack to it, in honour of a tremendous, spirited woman who with Thomas, and, later, their sons, ran the famous session emporium in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare where many teeth in music were cut, where all the great performers have played, and where hospitality has been legendary. The pub remains socially and musically central in the annual Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, almost as iconic as the piper himself.
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from Merrijig Creek,
track released January 1, 2021
Fintan, Sheena, Caoimhín and Liz
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...more
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Brilliant tunes, played brilliantly. Great recording too - well worth listening with headphones to take advantage of the stereo fun.
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