Tuned Out - In press, Cork University Press, Winter 2008
Balcony of the nation - in press, Dedalus Press, Dublin. 2008
Companion to Irish Traditional Music - New edition 2009, autumn
Biography, Fintan Vallely
Fintan Vallely is a musician and writer on traditional music. From Co. Armagh, he has taught flute at the Willie Clancy Summer School in Co. Clare since 1986, and was the author of the first tutor for Irish flute - Timber, the Flute Tutor - in 1986. This book is being reissued during 2008 in a new, expanded form as The Irish Flute Tutor, published by Walton's, the leaders in teaching manuals for Irish music. His other books include The Blooming Meadows (a collaboration with Charlie Piggott and photographer Nutan), Together in Time (a biography of Antrim flute player John Kennedy), and a major reference work, the edited, A-Z Companion to Irish Traditional Music (1999). This book is currently being revised for a new edition in 2009. Also coming out in addition to The Irish Flute Tutor in 2008 is his Tuned Out - Protestant Attitudes to Traditional Music in Northern Ireland, and a satirical song collection provisionally titled Balcony of the Nation.