DOUGLAS HADDEN | "The Navvy On The Line / Cregg's Pipes" : Conal O'Grada & Tara Diamond 1984 @douglashadden2172 | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
A recording from nearly 40 years ago - the Flute and Whistle Recital at the Willie Clancy Summer School of 1984. The emphasis at these concerts is on solo performance, but occasionally two or more players share the stage. Two players from the opposite ends of Ireland got together to share their performances, this was their opening pair of reels.
The recording was made on equipment "of the time", as was the house PA system, but there can be no doubt of the quality of the playing.
My apologies for the occasional "glitch" in making the transfer from a 39-year old cassette tape.
Photo collage :
1 - Conal O'Grada on stage at a recent "Flute Cruinniu" in Ballyvourney.
2 - a photo of 11 of the Willie Clancy week flute and whistle tutors. Tara is 4th on the left.
3 - Willie Clancy week flyer from 1985 [ nearest I have to 1984 ]
4 - they put traditional musicians on postcards in Ireland
5 - another postcard - Micho Russell
6 - scan from "Treoir" magazine of the Mullagh set. Ollie Conway's bar in Mullagh had some of the best ever sessions throughout the 1980s in particular.
7 - the only photo I have from 1984 - another Kenny, from Aberdeen
8 - more recent postcard showing the Willie Clancy statue in Miltown Malbay.
9 - "The Three Amigos" - outside "O'Connor's Bar" in Doolin.
10 - all of this is posted in memory of Mich Nielsen [ Copenhagen ], who sadly departed from us last year. RIP, Mich. Many people in Miltown this week will be thinking of you.