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Fintan Vallely
One of my favourite flute albums by one of my favourite flute players. Not many musicians have as much life and lift in their music as Fintan, and he’s great “craic” as well. Don’t miss him if you get a chance to hear him. I see from the website that he’s doing a talk at the Willie Week this year, too.
The tunes on this record are all flute classics. Wild stuff!
Is he related to Niall and Cillian Vallely?
-Max
Family relations
I think Fintan’s their uncle, Max.
“Hidden Track”
I’ve been prompted to listen to this LP again, and there is an unlisted track of 4 reels between Tracks 6 & 7. They are “The Stone In The Field / The Knotted Cord[ aka Junior Crehan’s ] / The Green Fields Of Glentown / The Return To Camden Town”.
Also , the reel listed as “The West Wind” is in fact the 2-part version of “The Boy In The Gap”.
On CD now
This is an old recording, originally on LP, but very hard to get in recent years - thanks Kenny. Now released on CD by Fintan at http://www.imusic.ie
Lovely playing with a wild touch about it.
Track 12
… is “Fred Finn’s Polka”, not the reel it links to.
Re: Traditional Irish Flute Music
Track #13 on “Youtube” :
https://youtu.be/tSt8OnEq26E
Re: Traditional Irish Flute Music
It would appear that all of the tracks from Fintan’s recording are up on “Youtube”, “Provided to ”Youtube“ by CDBaby”. Not at all sure about the legality of that, but not really my problem. So………
https://youtu.be/6AlAbn8PLak
Fintan Vallely - his website and well worth a visit!
https://imusic.ie/ - scroll down - - - I particularly enjoyed Fintan’s sojourn -
"The Humours of Cocoon – 4 decades of music and writing under the one roof:
Topical tunes to while away the quarantine with sanguinity"
“Fintan Vallely: Traditional Irish Flute Music”
Re: Traditional Irish Flute Music
I think the second reel on Track 13 isn’t the Shepherd’s Daughter. It is listed as ‘Paddy Taylor’s’ on the album and has that name in Tunepal. I can’t find it under that name on TheSession
Re: Traditional Irish Flute Music
You are correct - sorted now.