| Description | Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.20 Description of track: Tone for length of track
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 6.31 Description of track: Radio programme 'Folk Music of Donegal' compiled and introduced by Peter Kennedy and with Noel Hamilton lecturer in the Department of Celtic Studies at Queen's University, Belfast and [Connel O'Donnell] a Gaeltacht folk singer who gives English translations of his singing after singing the Gaelic verses; programme explores folk music of Donegal and includes examples of the singing and music
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 5.04 Description of track: Radio programme continued with the instrumental tradition and the stories behind the tunes; [Mickey Doherty] explains the story behind the tune about a fiddler in [Glennfinn] and then plays the reel on the fiddle
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 3.25 Description of track: Discuss the subject of fiddlers believing that they learnt tunes and even their tune playing techniques from the 'fairies'; examples of fiddle playing include 'The Slow Air of the Blackbird'
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 3.31 Description of track: Discuss the use of the fiddle as a means of story telling which lends itself to weddings; Noel Hamilton talks about Torrey Island, of f north coast of Donegal where he recently attended a wedding; examples of music from the wedding ceilidh
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 2.29 Description of track: Noel Hamilton also heard at the ceilidh 'Ahrainn na scannann' 'The Song of the Herring' which is played
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 1.22 Description of track: A 'Highland' is played which Noel Hamilton heard at the ceilidh on Torrey island
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 2.22 Description of track: Noel talks about some of the veteran folk singers he met on Torrey Island in addition to going to the ceilidh; examples of their singing follows
Total duration: (min/sec): 25.04 |