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Sound Recordings, Ireland

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A295r

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Ireland

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A295r

Creator(s): Taylor, Barry Roy

Site Location(s): Subject - Doonogan, County Clare, Ireland ( 52.8111, -9.40839 )

Date(s): 11 July 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 93' 35".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414346

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Michael Downes, [recorded in Doonogan, County Clare], plays a number of fiddle tunes; includes also his comments on the quality of his playing; plays three versions of a reel learned from Bobby Casey, and a further version learned from Junior Crehan; talks about learning the fiddle; traditional players such as the Casey and Crehan families, John Kelly and Willy Clancey; sources of his repertoire; playing technique; fiddlers Patrick Kelly and Michael Flynn. [Tr. 1]


Michael Downes and Patrick Crehan play various jigs and reels. Patrick Crehan plays the ?whistle/?flute. Recorded in an unidentified ?pub. [Tr. 2]


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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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