Day 8 of recording, Day 22 of isolating at home.

Today I’m playing a pair of Paddy Fahey reels.

There are a good few 20th Century traditional Irish music composers whose music I love: Ed Reavy, Junior Crehan, Eddie Kelly. But the tunes of Paddy Fahey were my first love, so they have a special place. And how could you not love them? They have some ethereal quality, seemingly light and airy but with greatness imbued. They often have an unexpected twist or turn that always catches my attention.

Paddy died in 2019 at the age of 102, but these tunes I got from a 1978 recording by Muintir Lewis. The record was called Weeds in the Garden.
Here’s a sound clip of these tunes from that record: [ Ссылка ]

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