Maeve Donnelly & Tony McManus
Tickets are $15.00 : Children under 12 free
There will be workshops from 4PM to 6PM (note change!)
in both guitar and fiddle: $25.00 for either one.
Pre-registration IS required! Please call 610-486-2220 to do so.
(3 reel set)
Flax In Bloom / Beauty Spot / Counting The Coppers
(2 jigs)
Anthony Frawley's / I Love You Not And I Care Not
playing - what else? - fiddle tunes on guitar.
(recorded at the Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp)
Maeve Donnelly is from the village of Kylemore Abbey in East Galway, an area steeped in traditional music. In the past, many notable musicians and bands hailed from this region of Ireland. She now lives in the picturesque village of Quin, Co. Clare, a short walk from a lovely old Abbey. She has been playing the fiddle since the age of five and won her first All-Ireland Fiddle Competition at the age of nine. She subsequently won two more All-Ireland fiddle titles as well as the National Slogadh Competition for Solo Fiddle and The Stone Fiddle Competition in County Fermanagh.
Maeve has been impressed by the music of older players such as Peadar O’Loughlin (flute), Joe Cooley (accordion), Paddy Fahy (fiddle), and Willie Clancy (uilleann pipes). She regards Paddy Fahy and Peadar O’Loughlin as having had a great influence on her music. In 1976 she was the youngest of 25 musicians invited from Ireland to perform at the Bicentennial Festival of American Folklife in Washington D.C. During this tour, Maeve recorded the album “Sailing into Walpole’s Marsh”.
As a founding member of the group Moving Cloud she has recorded and toured in North America playing at such prestigious venues as the Milwaukee Irish Fest, The Lincoln Performing Arts Centre in New York, the Champlain Valley Folk Festival, the Washington Irish Festival and the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Maeve’s solo debut fiddle album is simply titled “Maeve Donnelly”. This CD was the culmination of many months of research into old manuscript material as well as listening to the music tapes/CDs of older musicians.
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To find a unique voice on so ubiquitous an instrument as the acoustic guitar is quite an achievement. To do so within a centuries-old idiom where the instrument has no real history is truly remarkable. In a little over ten years as a professional musician Tony McManus has come to be recognized throughout the world as the leading guitarist in the genre. From childhood, his twin obsessions of traditional music and acoustic guitar have worked together to produce a startlingly original approach to this ancient art. In Tony’s hands the complex ornamentation normally associated with fiddles and pipes are accurately transferred to guitar in a way that preserves the integrity and emotional impact of the music.
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