Description
This book contains biographies along with
black and white photographs featuring
over one hundred traditional musicians
from counties Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon
and Mayo. Through the author’s unique
personal and musical connection to the
musicians of the North Connacht region,
he uses a conversational interview style to
draw out their stories, revealing both the
individual and collective experience within
that tradition.
Musician/writer Fintan Vallely states
in the book foreword:
“As the story of the music self-identity
of this region is tenderly revealed
through a respectful, unhurried text
and clear, contemplative images, the
reader slips into step with the mutually
complementary, researched, written words
and the eye of the camera.”
