Me and Máire
Máire Ní Bhraonáin played the Glen tonight!
Máire is Enya’s sister and the original lead singer with Clannad. She gave a wonderful performance – beautiful songs, lively dancing, good company. She had an American do a warm-up set of folky-trad material. Some of that was good – especially the Manx song she sang but I wasn’t very impressed by her. There was also a small group of young women who played a set of fiddle tunes. This group, The Reel Deal they call themselves, has two members who are the daughters of James Byrne, the great Donegal fiddle player who died recently. His family are trying to preserve his memory. There has been a Summer school for young fiddle players going on all this week in the National school, the James Byrne Summer School. Every night in Rorty’s they have been playing.
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