Donegal Fiddle MusicJimmy Houston (1920-1995)
Castlefin and Drumkeen Compiled by Martin McGinley. Uploaded – 5.10.20 Jimmy Houston was born in February 1920 in the townland of Ballybogan, along the main road just outside…
Eithne Vallely (1945-)
Making a lifetime of difference Two of the key figures in the development of uilleann piping and traditional music in Ireland in the past fifty years are from…
Charlie Joe Gordon
Liscooley Compiled by Martin McGinley. Uploaded on 6.10.20 Charlie Joe Gordon, who lived near Liscooley, is remembered as a fine, sweet player with a tasty and rhythmic style. He…
Mick Doherty (1924-2014)
Ballybofey and Perth Compiled by Martin McGinley. News report from the ‘Donegal News’ on Friday 17th October, 2014 THE funeral took place in Western Australia earlier this morning…
Séamus Gibson
Compiled by Martin McGinley. Uploaded on 6.10.20 Séamus grew up in Castletown, St. Johnston, in a musical family. His mother, Monica, is a sister of the fiddler Tommy…
Frank Kelly (1936-)
Compiled by Martin McGinley. Uploaded on 7.10.20 Frank Kelly is one of Donegal’s leading fiddlers and during a lifetime of playing he has rubbed shoulders with some of…
Charlie Patton (1932-2002)
Ballinacor, Killygordon Compiled by Martin McGinley. Uploaded 6.10.20 Most of the information is from MacAoidh, C. (1994) Between the Jigs and the Reels: The Donegal Fiddle Tradition, Manorhamilton,…
Josie McIntyre
Compiled by Martin McGinley. Uploaded on 6.10.20 The traditional music session in the Central Bar in Raphoe on a Wednesday night in the late 1970s and 1980s counted…
Kathleen McGinley (1931-2011)
Compiled by Martin McGinley. Uploaded on 6.10.20 Like many east Donegal fiddlers, Kathleen McGinley (pictured with Teelin fiddler Mick Brown) was born into a musical family. Her mother…
Bríd Harper
Compiled by Martin McGinley. Uploaded 5.10.20 Bríd Harper, who’s originally from Castlefin, has been described by the Irish Echo as “one of the finest fiddlers in traditional music”. …
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