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Set 8: The Maid of Annaghmakerrig.
The theatre director Tyrone Guthrie had his mother’s family home at Annaghmakerrig, near Newbliss, Co. Monaghan until his death in 1971. From 1963 he developed the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, a city which many notable Irish musicians have made their home, including Derry guitarist and singer Daithí Sporule, and Offaly accordionist Paddy O’Brien. Judith, who was married to Guthrie, of course played a role in the great man’s trajectory, but, of its time, this was unmarked. The house was donated jointly to the Arts Councils on Guthrie’s death, and opened as an arts residency in 1981. Writer Evelyn Conlon, who was on its board, once remarked to the Director, Bernard Loughlin, on Judith’s invisibility, an observation that led to an invitation to research the woman’s influence. Since this was being done at the same time as this tune came together, ’Judith Guthrie’s Jig’ took over as the title, not least on account of my Minnesota friends, among them dancer, music organiser and artist Nick Lethert, Dáithí Sproule himself, fiddle-player Mary MacEachron, small-piper and flute-player Laura Makenzie, and dancers including Liz Welch and Sheila Jordan. The introductory piece ‘Fool’s Errand’, titled after a poem of Dermot Healy’s, is a re-working as an air of the jig which follows; this was done originally for performance with Dermot in one of our recitals recorded by RTÉ. The jig has shadows of Balkan influence perhaps, as it came after the first of my music explorations in Bulgaria, on one of which in 1993 I led Siamsa Tíre’s Fr. Pat Ahern and Martin Whelan in a recce of folk-dance colleges in the country following the opening of the Berlin Wall. The urge to be there was sparked by Trio Bulgarka’s song and associated music, a passion for Bulgarian music idioms that I shared with flute-player and sculptor Eamonn O’Doherty and Planxty instrumental wizard Andy Irvine.

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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
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