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7 5 12 20111214 12 TRADITIONAL NOTES – A CELEBRATION OF IRISH MUSIC AND MUSICIANS STEPHEN POWER (The Liffey Press, Dublin, ISBN 978 1 908308 01 6) Available from www.theliffeypress.com) T HIS NEW PUBLICATION consists of a collection of photo- graphic portraits of a range of Irish traditional musi- cians, as well as notes on the featured musicians and singers, and on the different instruments used in the tradi- tion. Included among the latter are the core instruments like the pipes (with notes on piper Cillian Vallely and on pipemaker Michael Vignoles), the fiddle, flute, whistle, concertina and accordion, as well as the various plucked and percussion instruments also used. F REE SPIRITS chronicles the life and times and the influences of the famous Irish travelling families on Irish traditional music over many decades – The Doran brothers, Johnny and Felix, the blind Dunnes, the world famous Fureys, the legendary Keenan family, the Doherty and Rainey fami- lies in Donegal and Galway. Detailed accounts of the life and times of all colourful traveller musicians, such as the Pecker Dunne and Mag- gie Barry, are also central to this riveting story. The colourful, coffee-table style book contains 150 photographs, some never published before, FREE SPIRITS – IRISH TRAVELLERS AND IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC TOMMY FEGAN & OLIVER O’CONNELL (MPO Productions, Ennis. ISBN 978 0 9570194 0 9) Available from NPU at €25 (Members: €23.00) 50,000 words and 32 transcriptions of tunes – including many with regulator accompaniment – which are closely associated with the Trav- ellers’ repertoire. A special highlight is the handwritten manuscripts from the Ted Furey Collection, donated by Finbar Furey to The Irish Folklore Commission, UCD, and pub- lished here in public for the first time.

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