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Over the last number of years ITMA has interviewed musicians, singers and dancers during the Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay. The interviewees come from across all aspects of the tradition and from all over the island of Ireland. A new interview will be released on YouTube and on the ITMA website at 4pm each Wednesday.
Presented by ITMA’s Clare Officer, Liam O’Brien.
Fiddle & Concertina players from Dublin. Interview in Queally’s Pub, Miltown Malbay during the Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy 2023. (CID: 290495)
Having grown up in very muscial families they talk about their musical up-bringing and Méabh’s family pub, The Cobblestone, Dublin.
Timecodes:
0:00 – An seanduine dóite, jig ; Merrily kiss the quaker, jig ; The sweet briar, jig
4:48 – Interview
20:36 – London lasses, reel ; George White’s favourite, reel
24:18 – Interview
31:18 – The boys of Ballisodare, hop jig; Cucanandy, hop jig
Connie O’Connell is a fiddle player from Cill na Martra, Co. Cork – a parish located between Macroom and Ballyvourney. Cill na Martra is in the Múscraí Gaeltacht and is south-east of the area referred to as Sliabh Luachra. Connie has been strongly influenced by the music of Sliabh Luachra, an area encompassing the West Cork and East Kerry border. In particular, he has been influenced by the renowned fiddle players of the region – Denis Murphy, Pádraig O’Keeffe and Julia Clifford. He is regarded as one of the finest present-day composers and exponents of the Sliabh Luachra style today.
