1 996 Committees Philadelphia Ceili Group Ed Licinit President

Festival Consultant Steve Winick

Adninistration Nancy Gallagher

Bulk Mailing Larry Klock

Gate Bill Keane

Grants Greg Duffy

Hospitality Darcy Fair Evelvn Drvbureh

Information Loretta Gaughan

Masters of Ceremony Myron Bretholz Tommy Moffit Steve Winick Tom Slattery

Parkina Kate Krout

Programming General: Greg Duffy, Ed Licinit,

Joan McKenty Ed Reavy Legacy: Roy Rogers Harpers: Joanna Mell ~ e w Generation:

Dancers: Eileen Henry Musicians: Chris Brennan Hagy

New Tunes: L.E. McCullouah

Program Book & Flyer Editors Ed Licinit, Joan McKenty Design Pc Production Rill Masi Ad Sales Greg Duffy

Publicity Bill Stein

Sales CDs/Tapes/Records Dan & Kim Flynn T-shirts Becky Baum

Security Chairs Kristin Gilkeson, Mike Kelly

Site Supervisors Nathan Lerner Brian Quinn

Sound Dean Languell, Scott Natters

Acknowledgements

The Philadelphia Ceili Group gratefully acknowledges support from the following people and organizations in presenting this year's festival:

Murphy's Irish Stout and lrish Amber Friendly Sons of St. Patrick John McShain Charities Rosemarie Timoney George McCullough, DUTV 54,

Drexel University J. Raisch & Son Cannstatter Club - Philadelphia

1996 Committees Stqe hnhgement

Main Stage Mary Lou McGurk Workshop Kim and Jim Mowery Dance Area Kathy Lenahan Dance Area Musicians John Stapleton

Technical Ed Licinit

Tickets Lorraine Quinn

Vendom/Crafts Maggie Quigg

Volunteers Anne &Joe Lang

Web Master Bill McKenty

Helpful lnformation for Festival Goers

Welcome to our twenty-second annual festival. We are trying to make your day as enjoyable as possible and hope the following information wil l help. If you have any questions, please stop at the information booth near the main gate.

Please see map for locations of first aid, rest rooms, food and beverages, and record and Ceili Group T-shirt sales.

For directions to a public telephone, please check at ,

information booth. No coolers are to be brought

onto festival site. No one under 21 wil l be

permitted to purchase alcoholic beverages.

No pets (seeing-eye dogs excepted) are permitted on festival grounds.

Please help keep the festival site clean. Use designated trash cans.

Daytime activities end at 6 PM; evening dancing ends at 11 PM.

The Philadelphia Ceili Croup's 1996 Festival Home page: http:/Jw.netaxs.comJ-wrnckenty

KENNY COLDSTEIN MEADOW STAGE

LESSIONS

SESSIONS VENDORS PAVILION

TENTS

MONUMENT

Please Note: In the event of a rainy day, the Main Stage activities will be moved inside to the Dance Hall stage, while the Dance Schedule will be

followed in a room directly below.

Dance Stage Music Manager: john Stapleton

Noon Introduction to Irish Dancing

1 :00 Intermediate Ceili -

2:00 Open Ceili

3:00 Step Dance Workshop: John Jenn ings - -

4:00 Set Dance Workhop: Fiona Dore-Buckley

5:00 Killer Cedi Lesson: Grace Ann Coyle

6:00 Set Workshop: Jim Keenan -

8:00 Evening Ceili to 11 :oo

Noon Harpers Showcase with Sinead ni Argadain, Debbie Brewin-Wilson, Kathy DeAngelo, Joanna Mell and Ellen Tepper

1 :00 New Generation Music and Dance

2:00 Danny Flynn & &en ~ c ~ i r r

2:30 Mick Moloney, Zan McLeod and John Williams

3:00 Andy lwine -

3:30 Paddy Keenan & ~ i ~ e l ~ t e v e n s - 4:00 Slow Airs and Laments Workshop with Sinead ni Argadain,

Mark Donnelly, Winifred Horan, L.E. McCullough, Owen McGirr, Tomas Standeven, Ellen Tepper 'nd John Williams - -

5:00 Craobh Rua -

5:30 New Generation Music and Dance

6:40 EVENING CONCERT Ed Reavy Legacy

Brian Conway, Billy McComiskey, Zan McLeod, L.E. McCullough and Mick Moloney Paddy Keenan and Nigel Stevens

Craobh Rua Andy lwine Solas

12:OO Donegal Fiddles with David Abe, Roisin Harrigan and Caomhmin MacAoid h

12:30 Hardshoe and Percussion Workshop with Myron Bretholz, Chris Carpenter, Ed Clark, Cait Currie, Brian Duffy, Danny Flynn, Charlie Gaffney and Roisin Harrigan

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1 :00 Favorite jigs, Reels and Hornpipes Workshop with Charlie Gaffney, Roisin Harrigan, Kitty Kelly, Fintan Malone, Owen McGirr, Kevin McGillian, Zan McLeod and Tomas Standeven

2:00 Blind Mary

2:30 Gan Ainm - -

3:00 Fresh Airs from Old Erin - New Tunes Workshop hosted by L.E. McCullough

4:00 Songs of the Famine & Emigration with Jim Byrne, Karan Casey, Andy Irvine, Mick Moloney and Nigel Stevens

5:00 The Legacy of Ed Reavy hosted by Roy Rogers with Brian Conway, Billy McComiskey, Kevin McGillian and Mick Moloney

lrish music session begins at 12 noon at this tent. Al l players are welcome.

1 :00 Crash Course in the lrish Language for beginners with Leo Mohan, Tom Cahill and Padraic McGill

2:00 "The History of lrish Social Dancing" with Jim Keenan

3:00 "The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792" with Ellen Tepper

3:30 "Irish Storytelling" with Tom Slattery

4:00 "Irish Monastic Nature Poetry" with Helen Kennedy

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5:00 St. Brigid's Crosses with Kitty Kelly, and Ann Ryan

12:OO Banjo Class with Fintan Malone -

1 :00 Fiddle Class with Brian Conway

2:00 Beginning Tin Whistle with L.E. McCullough

3:00 Bodhran Class with Myron Bretholz

4:00 Donegal Style Fiddle with Roisin Harrigan, Caomhmin MacAoidh and David Abe

5:00 Introduction to the lrish Harp with Joanna Mell

12:OO John Kelly Memorial Session led by Kitty Kelly

1 :00 Darcy Fair

1:30 Frank Malley

2:00 "Harp & Bardic Tradition Workshop" with Sinead ni Argadan, Kathy DeAngelo, Joanna Mell, Deidre Salkind and Ellen Tepper

3:00 Plectrum Workshop with Chris Carpenter, Brian Connolly, John Doyle, AI Keller, John Lavalley, Fintan Malone and Bill McKenty

4:00 Joanna Mell

4:30 McDermott's Handy

5:00 Castlegarden -

5:30 Separate Reality

Events to be determined. Wi l l include Moon Bounce, face painting, playground and more.

Kenny Goldstein 1927-1 995

I t is with sadness that singers. He often provided accommodations and

the Ceili Group honorarium at his classes for traveling musicians. Among

notes the death on those he brought to Philadelphia included Joe Heaney,

November 11 th, 1995 of Liam O'Flynn, Delores Keane, Cathal McConnell and

Kenny Goldstein, a long- Mick Moloney. He traveled frequently in Ireland

time friend and consultant collecting books and songs and shared his extensive song

to the group. Recognized collection with prominent lrish folklorists.

around the world as a More recently, Kenny was a strong proactive

collector and scholar of supporter of the Philadelphia Ceili Group. As our consul-

folklore and folksong, he tant he provided guidance and advice on the fall festival.

was known by many for his Through his efforts we were able to present storytellers

generosity of spirit and strong support of traditional singers Eddie Lenihan and Alice Kane and singer Paddy Berry in

in particular. 1 988. As an advocate, it was through his efforts that the

Ed Licinit asked me to say a few words about Kenny Library of Congress accepted the Ceili Group's tape

Goldstein and his contributions to the world of traditional ~0llecti0n after Seven years of negotiation. This year the

music and song. From his obituary you have a good Ceili Group officially recognized and thanked Kenny at

description of his considerable professional achievements. the Fall festival for his life-long contribution to the Support

I would like to speak from a more personal perspective. and preservation of Irish and Celtic culture. I will miss him

Kenny deeply loved lrish Music and song. From this terribly, as a friend and mentor, and as a person always love he was motivated to change careers and become a generous, quick with an opinion, and always ready for a

folklorist. He used to say with a laugh that because he was good song. His legacy is strong, both in the hearts of his

born on St. Patrick's Day he had half a claim on being many friends and in the collection of songs, books and

Irish. More seriously, when collecting traditional songs he tapes he has left for all of us - to make our lives richer and

felt that having the name Goldstein was an advantage. An filled with song.

outsider who loved traditional singing was welcome at all - Robin Hiteshew hearths, regardless s of political or religious persuasion. The Ceili Group has permanently renamed the Meadow stage to the

Well known for his generosity Kenny actively Kenny Goldstein Meadow Stage in honor of Kenny's lifelong and signifi-

supported and encouraged many Irish musicians and cant support of traditional music and song. AS is fitting of Kenny's love of folksong, there will always be singing presented on this stage.

Dan Flynn Sr. 1921 -1 996

I n early March of this year Dan died suddenly of a tions, what stands out most is heart attack at the age of 75. Perhaps ironically at the tender heart larger than the start of the mad frenzy known in recent years the stout man he was; the

as the "St. Patrick's season." I would hazard a guess Dan warmth and unconditional would find that term both amusing and offensive. For regard and respect he showed those that knew him realize it is a concept foreign to the all he came to know and passion that filled and informed his life. interacted with in his busy

Over the past 18 years, I've known Dan to be a life. Perhaps it was grounded vocal and ardent supporter of all things Irish, whether it in the self knowledge he possessed or in the lrish stub- was an annual ball given by one of the various county bornness that drove him never to give up no matter what societies, a ceili thrown by any organization in the the odds. Young or old, Dan welcomed all. It was no Delaware Valley, or an event sponsored by the Ceili surprise that his wake filled the entire church, that all Group or the Irish Center. His passion for the sea was Irish organizations were represented to pay their expressed with his long time involvement with the respects to a friend now gone. annual celebration of Commodore John Barry, name- To his wife Pat, and son Dan Jr. we send our condo- sake of the lrish Center at Emlen and Carpenter Streets in lences, no matter how inadequate words may seem at Mt. Airy. time of personal loss and grief. They do know how Dan

Years ago he encouraged the Ceili Group to support wil l be missed, and it is my hope that the demonstrative the Center, maintaining rightly, that it is a wonderful reaction of those of us touched by his energy, goodwill resource and was begun by newly arrived lrish people and respect wil l carry with us forever, that his light wil l seeking a place where they could meet friends and find encourage and enrich us. a piece of home in this city. More recently, most of his Today the Ceili Group officially recognizes Dan's efforts were to be a one man publicity machine, contributions and accomplishments, and knows that in producing flyers he would carry around to various lrish heaven he surely is tapping his feet to the tunes and functions around the area. All of this without recom- songs that fill the air today. We miss him tremendously. pense, without being asked.

While the specifics of his life were reported: Born in - Robin Hiteshew New Haven, CT, graduated high school in Philadelphia, served in the Navy, active in numerous lrish organiza

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THE JOHN KELLY SESSION is held every year at the PCC festival in memory of John Kelly (1 906-1 990). The session starts off the activities at the John Kelly stage at noon. john Kelly was born in Co. Sligo, lreland and learned the fiddle at a young age. He emigrated to the United States in 1928. John played the fiddle for several years, but stopped until his retire- ment. The years off did him no harm as he placed first in the senior fiddle competition, slow airs, at the New York Fleadh Ceoil in 1979. Just as important as his accomplishments

was his support of young musicians and the Philadelphia Ceili Group. For many years John led the Philadelphia Ceili weekly ceili's at the Commodore Barry Club. John was very generous with his time and talent. Many of those playing in the session today are former students and/or learned many tunes form John. The Philadelphia Ceili Croup is eternally grateful to his many contributions to our group and to the culture in the lrish Community.

DAVID ABE is a classically trained violinist who has been playing lrish traditional music since the late 1970's. He has lived in lreland and studied lrish traditional fiddle styles exten- sively. His playing reflects a strong northern influence, particularly from County Donegal, and he counts among his musical influences and friends such great contemporary fiddlers as Pol 0 Seachnasaigh, Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh and Brendan Mulvihill. Dave plays regularly at dances with button accordionist Billy McComiskey and guitarist Zan McLeod, with the Washington, D.C. band Skellig, the Mary-

David Abe land-based early music group, Ensemble Calilei, and is a frequent guest fiddler with

Celtic Thunder. He can be heard on Zan McLeodls Crammy nominated album, Highland Soul, Grace Criffith's Every Hue and Shade and Celtic Thunder's recent release, Hard New York Days.

SINEAD NI ARGADAIN is a harpist and singer from a musical family in County Dublin, lreland where she studies classical singing. Performing traditional lrish songs and her own songs and arrangements on the lrish harp, she sings in both the lrish and English languages. As a Trinity,Hospice Nurse of New Jersey, Sinead shares her music, referred to as "The Healing Harp", to extend comfort and solace to terminally ill and dying patients and also to the bereaved. Sinead has performed at numerous lrish festi- vals, theaters and universities. Her cassette "lreland of my Dreams" was a sell out.

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BLIND MARY'S four members hail from the Northeast Philadelphia and Bucks County area. Their eclectic blend of driving dance music, delicate ballads and airs and % .

whimsical songs has , , 1 pleased audiences throughout the region. Dubl in-born Clarissa Garvey is the product of an lrish u.,, .- family steeped in the singing tradition and Blind Mary

she is best regarded for her unaccompanied singing. John LaValley performs with equal fluency on the mandolin, concertina and guitar. English-born Alison Gillespie explored bluegrass, Scandinavian and show tunes before settling on lrish and Scottish fiddle music. Al Keller is an accomplished banjo and mandolin player and provides the band's heartbeat with his rhythmic bodhran playing.

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CHRIS BRENNAN HAGY began playing violin in 1982 and first gravitated towards lrish fiddle because of her daughter Teganfs involvement in lrish dancing. She studied lrish fiddle with John Kelly and became very actively involved in the music as part of the Philadelphia Ceili Band and the Summit Pick Up Dance Society. She is a founding member of the Wednesday night session at the Mermaid Inn in Chestnut Hill which has continued regularly since 1988. She has trained as a Suzuki violin teacher with Linda Fiore and teaches Suzuki violin and piano. She lives in Wyndmoor with her husband Bruce and their three children - Tegan,

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MYRON BRETHOLZ i s a respected percussionist who lives in the Washington, D.C. area. He has participated in over two dozen recordings, including The Rights of Man, Green Linnet's CD which was taken from the 1990 concert on behalf of Joe Doherty. Myron has taught workshops at the Augusta Heritage Center, and is currently the Coordinator of Celtic Week at the Swannanoa Gathering at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. He is a frequent contributor of liner notes and articles about lrish music for reek Linnet, lrish America magazine, Myron Bretholz and other publications.

DEBBIE BREWIN-WILSON was the 1991 Scottish Harp Society of America Amateur Champion and was awarded a scholarship as her prize to study Scottish Harp and Gaelic song on Scotland's Isle of Skye. O n Skye, she studied harp with Alison Kinnaird and Gaelic song with Christine Primose, two of Scotland's foremost traditional performers. Debbie has performed profes- sionally throughout the U.S. and Canada

Debbie Brewin-Wilson and has also performed at the prestigious Feis an Eilean in Scotland. In 1994, her

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T O M CAHILL was born and raised in Philadelphia of lrish parents from the counties of Sligo and Mayo. He became interested in the lrish language after becoming involved with the Philadelphia Ceili Group in the summer of 1976. After attending classed in Philadelphia taught by Nora Campbell, Tom Standeven and Eoghan Ballard, he went to Ireland and spent time studying lrish in Belfast, in the Donegal Gaeltacht, in Ranafest and at the University of Ulster in Coleraine. Tom has taught lrish both at the lrish Center for the Philadelphia Ceili Group and at his home. Tom Cahill

CASTLE GARDEN Danny and Owen of Claddagh Folk join forces with the Brennans and Cait Currie to bring you tunes and songs of the lrish and lrish in America. Eugenia Brennan adds to the group a strong vocal presence with her inspired interpretations of tradi- tional ballads. Cait Currie's socially conscious bodhran playing delivers solid rhythms to accent the group's music driven bv - .

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BRIAN CONWAY was born and raised in the Bronx. His father, Jim, and all of his brothers and sisters play musical instru- ments. Brian studied fiddle at the,Martin Mulvihill School of Traditional lrish Music and was tutored in the specifics of the Sligo style by Martin Wynne. He also benefitted considerably from the Friday night sessions at the Conway house where he played with many experienced musicians such as Wynne, Dave Collins and Gus Collins. Brian has recorded on the Green Linnet label. Brian Conway

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CRAOBH RUA, a name that i s well-known in Celtic history from the Red Knights of Ulster, i s a traditional band from Belfast that includes Mark Donnelly on uillean pipes, Michael Cassidy on fiddle, Brian Connolly on banjo and Jim Byrne on guitar. Mark Donnelly was born into a musical family in Armagh, his father a fiddler and his mother a singer, and started playing tin whistle at age six. At age eleven he began studying Uillean pipes with Brian Valley at the Armagh Pipers club where Mark now teaches as well. Mark won the Uillean piping competition in the All Ireland Fleadh Ceol in 1981, 1982 and 1983. Michael Cassidy started pl

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DARCY FAIR was Silver Medalist in the Senior harp competition at the 1986 Fleadh Cheol na Eireann. She has been teaching and playing locally for fourteen years. Darcy is a featured performer on Carol Thompson's recording, Carolan's Welcome. When not harping Darcy is a doctoral candidate in Folklore and Folk- life at the University of Pennsylvania and is also a professional librarian.

Darcy Fair

CHARLIE CAFFNEY From Gluckaun, Durmkeeran, County Leitrim, Charlie learned flute at age 6 from his father, John and Uncle Martin Gaffney. While in his early teens, Charlie was town postman and always with flute in hand, would play tunes on the daily 13 mile walking rounds. Charlie learned from relatives Tommy Cramer and Jimmy McPortland, and his style was influ- enced by John McKenna, Tom Morrison, and the Longford, Kilavoggy and Belhavil Ceili bands. At age 20, he took up the melodion. in the style of Packey

Lharlle ~ l a t t ney Layden of Sligo. Coming to Philadelphia in 1948, Charlie played on live radio

with Austin Kelly's "All Ireland lrish Orchestra" and Tommy Caulfield's "Pride of Erin" orchestra.

GAN AlNM is the duo of Brian Duffy on bodhran, bones, tin whistle and guitar and Bill McKenty on flute, tin whistle and cittern. The son of Celtic music lovers, Brian Duffy grew up in a home filled with lrish music played regularly on the radio and stereo and made his PCG festival debut at age twelve when he accompanied Johnny Cunningham on the bones on our main stage. Bill McKenty began playing lrish music in 1979 after hearing De Danann at the Philadelphia ~ o l k Festival Gan Aimn and is self-taught on the flute. whistle, guitar and cittern. Gan Ainm plays regularly in the wee hours at Brian's apartment in Cheltenham.

ROlSlN HARRICAN i s a native of Burnfoot in the lnishowen peninsula of County Donegal. She first began to learn fiddle from the well known local player Dinny McLaughlin. She regularly attended the Cairdeas an bhFidleiri Donegal Fiddlers Summer School in Glencolmcille where she first heard the playing of James Byme. Over the years she has learned from and played a great deal with James and this association is strongly reflected in her style. She was one of the youngest players ever to feature at the national Oireachtas concert. She is now a committee member of Cairdeas na bhFidleiri and teaches regularly at the summer school. She has just jointly authored the third tutor volume of Donegal Fiddle music.

ANDY IRVINE has earned an audience that spans the continents of Europe and North America with his rare talents as a gifted musician, singer and songwriter. Happening upon the work of Woody Guthrie precipitated his switch from clas- sical to folk style guitar in the late fifties and subsequently he spent his apprentice years travelling with Ramblin' Jack Elliot and Derroll Adams, playing Dublin's emerging folk scene .In 1 966, with Johnn

rect and rearrange traditional lrish material and integrate Scottish, English and American songs into its repertoire. In 1972 lrvine founded Planxty with Christy Morre, Dona1 Lunny and Liam OrFlynn. One of the most influential groups ever to emerge from Ireland's tradi- tional scene, they gained an international following, fueled by superb live performances and the release of three LPs, each voted "Folk Album of the Year" by the prestigious "Melody Maker." After the group initially disbanded in 1975, lrvine teamed up with Paul Brady. Together for 18 months, the duo amassed such credits as a best selling album and their own series on BBC TV. During this period, lrvine also performed and recorded with DeDannan. Planxty reformed in 1979 with a European tour followed by three more albums. lrvine recorded a solo album in 1980, winning rave reviews from critics and fans. Planxty went their separate ways in 1983 and lrvine then formed a group called Mosaic, whose members hailed from Ireland, Denmark, Holland and Hungary. In 1986 Patrick Street evolved from Irvine's tours of the States with Kevin Burke, Jackie Daly and Gerry O'Beirne. When O'Beirne was unable to join the band, Artie McGlynn was invited to join and so far, Patrick Street has made four albums and has toured the U.S. annually. Andy recorded two new albums in 1991, one of Bulgarian and Macedonian music, the other his long awaited "Rude Awakening" album. Now, lrvine concentrates mainly on songwriting and touring solo.

PADDY KEENAN was born into a musical family of travelling people in Trim, Co. Meath and is the seventh generation of a family of outstanding pipers. He got his first set of practice pipes at age ten and a full set of pipes when he was twelve years old. The key influence on his piping was the travelling style of playing of his father, John Keenan. Paddy's style i s wild, fluid and open-fingered and makes tremendous use of the regulators. In the 1 9701s, Paddy was a member of the Bothy Band, the group that fueled the revival of lrish music in the late 70's. He has two

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KITTY KELLY, a founding member of the Philadelphia Ceili Band comes from a musical Donegal family. Her mentor for twelve years, John P. Kelly (RIP), passed on to her his love of the Slow Airs and the dance music of Ireland which is so evident in her gifted fiddle playing. Known for her lively ceili music and accompaniment to song, Kitty has appeared on radio and TV, and i s part of the fabric of the Philadelphia lrish community. She also teaches lrish fiddle to adults.

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HELEN KENNEDY is a writer living in Jenk- intown, PA. She became interested in lrish Monastic Nature Poetry while attending Temple University. They did not teach a course on the subject but had volumes of the poetry gathering dust in their library. Her interest in lrish and Celtic spirituality stems from the poetry and a workshop given on the subject at Kirkridge, the Celtic retreat center outside Bangor, PA. Helen has given talks on the poetry at various churches and at the Grail Center in Philadelphia. Her second novel, Conversations k i t h Grand- Helen Kennedy mothers and Grandfathers, about her lrish ancestors through the centuries. is almost I , finished. She h is poems and e;says published and has also studied ancient Chinese and Japanese poetry.

CAOlMHlN MacAOlDH has been involved with traditional Donegal. fiddle music for over twenty years. He has been responsible for preserving a huge portion of the old reDertorv of the countv which has been cdmpileb into a colle;tion housed in the Caoimhin MacAoidh

Donegal Fiddle Archive in Glencolmcille. As a player, he has performed at concerts throughout Ireland, as well as covering radio and television broadcasts and is a member of the group Conaillaigh which performs the traditional music of Donegal. He is the founder of the renowned fiddle development organization Cairdeas na bhfidleiri, which is responsible for the now famous Annual Gathering of Fiddlers in Glenties each autumn as well as the widely acclaimed Donegal Fiddlers Summer School in Glencolmcille each August where he is a featured teacher. He has written several popular and scholarly articles on Donegal fiddle as well as three volumes of The Donegal Fiddle Tutor. His most recent publication Between the Jigs and the Reels, The Donegal Fiddle Tradi- tion, i s a comprehensive 320 page book on all facets of Donegal fiddle music and is a monu- mental work.

FRANK MALLEY is a Philadelphia singer with a particular interest in traditional ballads. He has been involved with the Philadelphia Ceili Group and the lrish festival for over 20 years, holding many positions on the Board and festival committees. He sang in two produc- tions bv the lrish Plavers: Basil Burlwell's Fair Hills of Erin and ~ o m m ~ Sands' Humpty Frank Malley Dumpty was Pushed. He has performed at many Philadelphia area folk venues including The Bothy Club, The East Falls Cafe, The Prophet's Corner, Ofra's Living Room, and Biddles Cafe. He can be heard regularly at phi la.'^ premier folk-music tavern, The Mermaid Inn in Chestnut Hill. His 1995 tape Live at the Mermaid is available at the record booth.

FINTAN MALONE A native of Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Fintan resides in Cheltenham, PA. A self-taught mandolin, tenor banjo and cittern player, Fintan considers his main influence the musi- cians of West Clare, most notably the piper, Will ie Clancy. Fintan is half of the popular duo, Blarney, and enjoys playing for ceili dances with Kevin and Pancho. Fintan Malone

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E D REAVY was born February 14, 1898 in Barnagrove, Cootehille, County Cavan. He

came to the United States in 1912 and settled in the West Philadel- phia area known as Corktown. He died in Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in his 90th year.

Corktown is gone now but it was Ireland's home-away-from- home for Philadelphia-bound Irish, and those who settled there found a place they could call home. Think of the o ld boundaries of St. Agatha's parish (38th and Spring Garden Streets) and you'll have an idea of where this neighborhood was in old West Philadelphia.

Ed began his musical career as a Fiddler in the lrish tradition. He played in the old lrish dance halls and became a popular musi- cian at house parties and wedding receptions in the Philadelphia lrish American Communities.

His earliest compositions date back to the late twenties when

How Could Reavy Die!

The plumber of the hornpipes is dead. So I bore him sounds of sweetness The old diviner with the hazel bow, Some were sad and some were glad That found the Shannon's source And he composed half a thousand tunes And made its magic waters flow across the world. About the happy time we had." "NO" she said "he's not dead, Hush! I whispered. Did you see his fiddle How could Reavy die!" On the altar - silent as a stone And who are you to say! And his body on the grave in Drexel Hill? "I am the Wind: The Wind Clamped on the hole in a final salute That drove the clouds in herds Like an old finger frozen on a flute. Above the Cavan hills and Drexel too Did you see the people in a circle And whispered to the oats in Baragrove. Standing sadly in the snow, I am the breeze that kissed OfCarolan's face When the pipes refused to play in the cold? With moisture on my lips "I ws there" she said 'Til notes danced within his mind I am the Breath of the earth. Like flames behind a blind. Every mouth i s a wisp of my prayer I am the breadth in Reavy's body Breathing blessings of incense on the bites of the air I used to whistle in his mouth Because life has the edge on the ince. Merely oxygen upon arrival Listen my friend, to the lad with the whistle But virgin music coming out. With his finger tips timid and cold. He would hold me in the evenings See the life that he brings to the old man's tune And we'd play within his s6ul And the leaks that he brings to the eyes. He tamed me with his reverence See Reavy arise from the holes in the tin. . . But I always had to go. . . And announce on his grave "I'm alive!"

he recorded for the RCA Victor Company. For many years, howev- er, his works were known and performed by only a very small group of traditional musicians from the lrish American Communi- ties.

Now known in Ireland as "The Genius", Ed's natural talent for remembering tunes saved the best of this music for the generations that followed.

Below is a collection of his publications containing Ed's tunes and details on his prolific life.

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THE COLLECTED COMPOSITIONS OF ED REAVY No Composer of Traditional dance Tunes in the history of Irish Music has ever had his music adopted and played as widely as Ed Reavy. Born in the village of Barnagrove, Co. Cavan in 1898 he emigrated with his parents to Philadelphia in 1912 where he died in 1988. Ed Reavy composed over 400 tunes in his lifetime but sadly only 127 have been saved for publication. The Hunters House, probably the most famous of Ed Reavy's compositions is featured in this unique publication along with all the other great Reavy tunes. The introduction is by the internationally respected musician Mick Moloney. 'The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy' is a must for lovers of Irish Music everywhere.

THE ED REAVY COLLECTION OF IRISH-AMERICAN TRADITIONAL TUNES VOL 1 Compiled by Joseph M. Reavy 'The Music of Corktown' Corktown was the area of Philadelphia where Ed Reavy grew up, married, raised his six children and became an excellent fiddle player and composer. The Reaw house - becarnk a Mecca for the leading Irish musicians of the day and Ed Reavy ;efibed many of'the tunes they brought with them from the 'Old Country'. The 100 tunes included ir. this Collection were all arranged and adapted by Ed Reavy in his lifetime and formed part of his huge repertoire of Irish tunes. Lovingly compiled by Joseph M. Reavy, one of Ed's sons, this Collection is a unique and important contribution to the history of Irish-American Traditional Music. Fully indexed with an impressive history of the source of each tune and a detailed outline of how Ed Reavy enhanced each tune from the original to give i t the Reavy 'sound'.

THE COLLECTED COMPOSITIONS OF ED REAVY Performed by Joseph M. Reavy 3-Pack Cassette Set. CAT. NO.: GGMC 1001. The Companion to the book edition. Joseph M. Reavy was the single biggest force in the popularisation of his Father's music. Beginning in the 1960's Joe began painstakingly to notate his Father's compositions. He transcribed and helped his Father to name many of the tunes which to that point had remained unnamed. This

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L.E. McCULLOUGH Performer, composer, producer L.E. McCullough i s a pioneer and prime exponent of "Celtic World Beat," an innovative musical fusion blending traditional Irish, Scots and British Isles folk music with contemporary genres from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. A versatile multi-instrumentalist on flute, tin whistle, harmonica, synthesizer, alto saxo~hone, bones and bodhran, Dr. McCullounh -

L.E. ~ ~ ~ ~ l l ~ ~ ~ t - , recokded on 27 albums for A~~~I IEMI , Log Cabin, Kicking Mule, Rounder and Bluezette and

other independent labels. He's also the author of The Complete lrish Tinwhistle Tutor, Favorite lrish Session Tunes, the instructional video Learn lrish Tinwhistle and a book of 60 original lrish traditional compo- sitions, St. Patrick was a Cajun, to be published by Ossian Publications in 1997. Dr. McCullough has composed music for numerous broadcast commercials, PBS filmscores and theatre productions including john Kane, A Place just Right, Together Alone, Waiting for Godot, Story Theatre, Shadow of a Gunman and, with keyboardist T.H. Gillespie, a full-length Celtic ballet, Connlaoi's Tale: The Woman Who Danced on Waves. He performs on the music soundtrack of the new Ken Burns PBS television series, The American West, and on the score of the Neil Jordan film about lrish political leader Michael Collins.

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McDERMOTT'S HANDY the South jersey-based lrish group, is composed of Kathy DeAngelo and Dennis Gormley as a tribute to 80 year old lrish fiddler, friend and mentor Ed McDer- mott after his death in 1977. Kathy plays mostly the harp, fiddle, and banjo these days and sings in both lrish and English. She has two recordings to her

. - . . - . . . credit: Come Take the Byroads with McDermott s Handv and a Christmas

Album, 0 Come Little Children, with the Merry Mates. 'she has been playing harp since 1985 and performs in a harp duo called Harpers Bizarre with Debbie Brewin-Wilson. Kathy lives and teaches harp and fiddle. Dennis Gormley has been a fixture on the Philadelphia folk scene for over twenty years. He's a multi-instrumentalist who has performed and been recorded in almost every folk genre, including bluegrass, swing and country music. He has been performing traditional lrish music since 1978. His tasteful guitar accompaniment highlights his performances and he plays bouzouki, mandolin, flute and tinwhistle as well. He is a featured artist on many albums and produced and recorded Come Take the Byroads with McDermott's Handy.

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JOHN McGlLLlAN began taking lessons on the button-key accordion at the age of six from his father Kevin McGillian, who i s well-known in the Philadelphia area for his fine accordion playing. John's father Kevin and his mother Mary McGillian, also a musician, are his greatest inspira- tions. John continued his lessons a few years later with John McGrory, another well-known and accomplished Philadel- phia area accordion player.

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KEVIN McGlLLlAN began playing the button accordion at the age of 1 2 in Legfor Drum, near Strabane, Co. Tyrone. He is self-taught; and his influences include two accordion players of that area, Edward McNamee and Robert Finley. He came to Philadelphia in 1954. He plays for ceilis and in pubs in the Philadelphia area, and also plays for local feisanna.

Z A N M c L E O D is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina and a co-founder of the band Touchstone, whom he performed with in the 1980's. He plays acoustic and elec- tric guitars, bass, bouzouki, mandolin, banjo, percussion and keyboards. He has recorded with The Tannahill Weavers, The Red Clay Ramblers, Touchstone, Stephen Wade, Johnny Cunnineham. Mike Cross " -

Zan McLeod and the ~ a r r a MacNeills as ;ell releasing his own album Highland Soul in 1993. He

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J O A N N A MELL has been performing as a Celtic harper and singer in the Philadelphia area for the past 15 years. In 1985 she won second place for Sean Nos singing in New York City in the Fleadh Ceol. Since then she has been performing in concerts as well as the Bethlehem Music Fest and Celtic Classic. She recently released her first album, "Wind From lona" to critical acclaim.

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EVE RANTZER is a consummate singer, composer and music historian, and is a professional dance accompanist on piano and guitar. She is a collector and preserver of international music and dance and has performed with artists from Ireland, Israel, Italy and Russia. In 1991 she performed for the visiting Ambassadorial Russian Poets in Philadelphia. Eve performs and teaches at festivals in the U.S. and Canada. including the Philadelphia, New England and Toronto Folk Festivals.

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ROY ROGERS began playing lrish music in 1976 while living in Chicago where he bought his first tin whistle. In 1980 he grad- uated to uillean pipes, purchasing his first set from Timothy Britton who also gave him his earliest piping instruction. For the better part of the next decade he was the piper and lead vocalist for The Taproom Band, the well-known Philadelphia-based group. Roy has toured nationally; appeared on radio and TV; played festivals, colleges, coffee houses and workshops. Most recently he recorded the performance of Macbeth with Stacy Keach by The Shakespeare Theater at the Folger Library in Washington D.C.

SEPARATE REALITY features the rich flute of Monica DuQ and the wonderfully harmo- nious Celtic harp accompaniments of Ellen Tepper balanced by the dynamic blues influenced guitar style of Mike Dressler. Now, with the addition of Rachel Conrad, Separate Reality continues to draw from English and lrish folk songs, lrish dance tunes and ~cokish ballads, the band Separate Reality (I to r) Monica Duffy, fusing their different styles Ellen Tepper, Michael Dressler. (Not and backgrounds to create a pictured Rachel Conrad). sparkling sound that i s truly transcendant.

THOMAS F. SLATTERY Ill Tom, a released his first solo album John Williams in 1995 on Green Linnet. native Philadelphian and former high Winifred Horan has won scholarships to both the Mannes College of school English teacher, corporate Music in Manhattan and the new England Conservatory of Music in educator and speaker, i s now an lrish Boston, studied fiddle in her childhood with Maureen Glynn and won a storyteller, who has been enter- Junior All-Ireland championship. A nine-time Irish stepdancing champion taining both children and adults at who trained with Donny Golden, Win is a former member of Cherish the schools and festivals as well as Ladies. Karan Casey came to the U.S. in 1993 to pursue her love for jazz churches and meetings for the past 4 singing, but became involved in lrish traditional song, first appearing with years. His frequent trips to Ireland as the N.Y. band Atlantic Bridge and then joining Solas. Her first,solo album a tour leader keep him supplied with is soon to be released by Shanachie. John Doyle came to Ametjca as part new stories. He also teaches lrish of the band Chanting House with singer Susan McKeown. He i s an

Thomas F. Slattery, I l l HistoryICulture in 4 Community accomplished guitarist, an in-demand studio musician and as a song- Colleges and i s a free-lance writer writer and composer. He wrote the music for the independent lrish film

whose articles on lrish history appear monthly in the highly regarded In Uncle Robert's Footsteps and for Ron Kavanagh's play Down the Flats. Irish-american paper, An Scathan.

SOLAS features native Philadelphian Seamus Egan on flute, tin whistle, mandolin and tenor banjo as well as on low whistle, bodhran and uillean pipes, Chicago button accordion and concertina plaver John ~ i l l i a m s , native N ~ W York fiddler Winifred Horan, vocalist Karen Casey from Waterford and Dubliner John Doyle on acoustic guitar. Recently formed as a band, Solas has received wide praise and acclaim as an exciting and brilliant new lrish band. Indi- vidually, all are accomplished, experienced musicians. Seamus Egan has three solo recordings on Shanachie, Tradi-

THOMAS 1. STANDEVEN, JR. was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1931 and began music studies in elementary school

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favoring church choir, especially Grego- rian chant and pipe organ music. His interest in lrish traditional music and language began at age 17 when radio station WTEL began the lrish radio program featuring live traditional music with Austin Kelly and his All-Ireland lrish Orchestra. He began learning button accordion from Dan Smith, Philadelphia (and Galway) at this time. In 1956, he began learning fiddle with John Vesey of Phila., (and Sligo) and in 1957 began learning uillean pipes from Thomas Busby

of New York (and Co. Fermana~h). He benan learninn tin whistle and tional ~ u s i c of Ireland (1 985). Solas flute in 1959 with help and enc&ragemeny from Ed fah i l l of Phila., (and A Week in January (1 990) and Sligo). He began teaching Gaelic and uilleann piping in 1963 at the when Juniper Sleeps (1 996) - music which also forms the basis for the Phila. lrish Center at the request of members of the Ceili Group at that movie soundtrack "The Brothers McMullen." John Williams, the only time. He i s an accomplished musician as well as a fluent lrish speaker American ever to win the All-Ireland senior concertina title (19891, who continues to teach and to assist in any way to carry on the Celtic

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Nigel Stevens has played with many fine traditional musicians, including an appearance with

Seamus Egan and Eileen lvers at the Washington lrish Folk Festival, and worked with Paddy Keenan, John Williams and others on the upcoming film "Traveller". He is currently a member of the BaltimoreWashington band Causeway, with fiddler Jesse Smith and uilleann piper Kieran OfHare.

ELLEN TEPPER is one of the most accom- plished players of the Celtic harp in the Northeast. Trained on classical harp from the age of eight she earned her Bachelor of Music degree in harp performance from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts. She not only performs as a soloist but also with folk and early music ensembles and English country dance bands throughout the region. She has produced two solo albums, "Timeless Music for the Celtic Harp" and "Celtic Refractions" and can be heard on the

GRACE ANN COYLE, TCRG, ADCRG studied lrish Dancing under Bridie Logue and entered in many competitions throughout the Eastern Seaboard. Grace Ann founded the Coyle school of lrish Dance in the early 1 980fs, which is now directed by her sister, Eileen Henry. Grace Ann has started a new school, Rinca NA hEIREEN. Grace Ann teaches at the Commodore Barry Club and at the Knights of Columbus in Gloucester, NJ. She also enioys teaching both children

Grace Ann Coyle and adults the traditional Irish dances.

FlONA DORE-BUCKLEY Fiona Dore-Buckley was born in Shanagolden, West Limerick in the South West of Ireland and has alwavs loved traditional lrish dancing. There was never a shortage of a polka, reel or jig while she was g o k i n g up. She has lived in the United States for about 7 years and teaches lrish Set Dancing in the New Jersey/Pennsylvania area. She has formed her own group of Set Dancers appropriately named the "Shanagolden Dancers." Fiona's popularity as a Set Dance teacher has taken her to conduct workshops and/or exhibitions in Cape May, NY, Philadelphia, Delaware and as far away as Anchorage in Alaska. She has a Set Dance Occasion 4 or 5 times a year and they have become a great institution in the South Jersey area.

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EILEEN HENRY, TCRG, studied lrish dancing under Bridie Logue and entered in many competitions throughout the Eastern Seaboard. In 1978 Eileen qualified for the All-World championships in Ireland. Eileen is currently the director of the Coyle School of lrish Dance, which was founded by her sister Grace Eileen Henry

Ann Coyle in the early 1980's. The dancing school has locations in Chestnut Hill, Roxborough, Northeast Philadel- phia and Norristown. Eileen enjoys teaching both children and adults the traditional lrish dances. Eileen is also the coordinator of the young dancers who will perform today.

JOHN JENNINGS a resident of New Jersey, took lessons for many years at the Golden School of lrish Dance in New York and won the North American lrish stepdance title at the age of sixteen. When he was eigh- teen years old, he won the World lrish step dance title in Ireland, an astonishing feat for an American-born dancer. He has appeared at concerts and festivals throughout the United States and has been featured on National Public ~elevision with The Green Fields of America and as a guest dancer with Cherish the Ladies.

JIM KEENAN is a native of County Armagh, Ireland and now lives in Maryland. He began his involvement in traditional music and dance as a teenager in Ireland and has maintained that interest while living across the United States and many other countries. He has danced Jim Keenan and taught county set and ceili dancing in Wash-

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PATSY WRABLY studied lrish dancing under Bridie Logue and entered in many competitions throughout the Eastern Seaboard. Her dancing skills have brought her to Carnegie Halt, New York where she danced with Frank Patterson. She is also a former Miss Mayo. Patsy can be seen in many exhi- bitions with the Coyle Dancers in the Delaware Valley. NELLIE KNITTLE studied lrish Dancing under Bridie Logue and entered many competitions throughout the eastern seaboard. On e of Nellie's

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