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The Guide to Irish Traditional Music by Fintan Vaallely
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2/ Voice and wind -
1/ Mouth music - the Englsih language in song, lilting and Jew's harp
Fermanagh singer Rosie Stewart, from the area of the famous pottery at Belleek, sings the local, place-praise, English-language ballad Adieu to Lovely Garrison in Ulster style.
Tim Lyons takes the highly-descriptive, internally-rhyming comic masterpiece Price of the Pig in his Connemara-influenced, precise ornamentation that is decorated by didling, or lilting.
Little Pack of Tailors, a nonsense song used once as a dancing rhythm, is brought by Len Graham in exceptionally agile voice, with storyteller John Campbell's accompaniment on Jews' harp. From up North on the Antrim coast, his repertoire is the product of childhood immersion in local song, absorption of the skills of master singers Joe Holmes and Eddie Butcher.
2/ Wind music - Tin whistle and concert flute
A most exciting player, metered here by tramping foot. Belfast-born Desi Wilkinson, dubs his burbling tin whistle with lilting in reel time on Stony Steps and Corner House.
Fermanagh-born Laurence Nugent builds the same instrument into a symphonic leader in stuttering, tongued ornament with jigs The frost is all over, Flowers of Spring and Hag with the Money to Jackie Moran's bodhr‡n drum accompaniment.
Armagh-born author Fintan Vallely plays Repeal of the Union and Boy in the Gap reels on flute with Americans Lori Cole on piano, Mark Simos on guitar, joined by CB Heinemann on bouzouki.