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Ben Lennon – the Tailor’s Twist Book Launch
A study in text, photographs and graphic design of the fiddler Ben Lennon of Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim. Ben Lennon is known widely as a stylistic performer and teacher in the…
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Ben Lennon – The Tailor’s Twist A study in text, photographs and graphic design of the fiddler Ben Lennon of Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim. Ben Lennon’s life is documented here in…
Read MoreCartoonist/songwriter Brian Moore Concert in Belfast
The Life of Brian A night of song, music and readings to celebrate the life of the Belfast singer songwriter, cartoonist and playwright Brian Moore, who died earlier this year. Wednesday 29 June in…
Read MoreLecture-performance for USIT Summer School, Trinity College
A one and a half hour presentation of Irish Traditional music incoroporating music, song and dance with explicatory commentary. Fintan Vallely (flute and speaking) with Kevin Rowsome (uilleann pipes), Edel…
Read MoreDigital Tír na nÓg in 2011
The compilation of The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, 2011′, IAML, Trinity College Audio-Visual Commission for the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres. Annual conference, Trinity College,…
Read MoreCold Case Bodh-rán – shaking a stick at the origin myths of the Irish drum (Clare)
In the nineteen sixties the bodhrán was loftily looked down noses at in the early Irish music scene and became the butt of the very first Traditional music jokes. But…
Read MoreNPU, Dublin: Hunting for borr- áne – Guest paper on the tambourine in Ireland
April 15, 2011. Hunting for borr- án – shaking a stick at the origin myths concerning the Irish drum. Evening lecture for Na Píobairí Uilleann at Henrietta St., off Bolton Street,…
Read MoreGuest Lecture to Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Head space, community and nation in traditional music: Illustrating by performed music and select images, Dr. Fintan Vallely explores the nature and significance of ‘free spaces’ generated by Irish traditional…
Read MoreGuest Lecture at Threads and Yarns Cultural Forum, Foxford, Co. Mayo
Fintan Vallely: Comic and satirical song in the Traditional music scene. Guest lecture at Threads and Yarns cultural forum, Foxford, Co. Mayo, Friday evening, 22nd October, 2010.
Read MoreWillie Clancy week Tribute to the McPeake Family
Fintan Vallely hosting ‘A Tribute to the McPeake Family of Musicians and Singers, Belfast’ at Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare.
Read MoreGalong, NSW, Australia – Guest Paper to Shamrock in the Bush
Fintan Vallely: ‘Tír na nÓg in 2010: Keeping Traditional music forever young’. Issues of passion, canon and change arising from the compilation of the encyclopedia Companion to Irish Traditional Music in…
Read MoreMelbourne – Monash University Guest Paper
Fintan Vallely: ‘The Irish drum – stone-age innovation in the digital age’, guest paper at Monash University, Melbourne, Research and Work-in-Progress seminars.
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