Reviews
Review of flute tutor in Irish Music magazine
Listen to a Performance of Fintan and Sheena Vallely on YouTube
2021-01 - Merrijig Creek - New tunes on flute, with Sheena Vallely (flute), Caoimhín Vallely (piano) and Brian Morrissey (bodhrán). Sample tracks.
Sample tracks on Bandcamp
2021-02 - Back to the Starry Lane - a re-mastering from original DAT of the 1992 cassette album Starry Lane to Monaghan. With Mark Simos on guitar. Sample tracks.
2018 - Two-CD album Compánach - Music from all the counties of Ireland. Song and music with ballads, sean-nós song and step dance from Fintan Vallely, Gerry O'Connor (fiddle), Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn (uilleann pipes), Seamus O'Kane (tambourine), Sibéal Davitt (dance), Máire Ní Choilm (Donegal song in Irish), Róisín Chambers (sean-nós song in Irish), Karan Casey (ballad, song in Irish), Maurice Leyden (ballad), Roisín White (ballad) and Stephanie Makem (ballad). Sample tracks.
Sample tracks on Bandcamp
2013 - Two-CD tuition set with new edition of the flute tutor: The Complete Guide to Learning the Irish Flute (Waltons, Dublin; for sale only with the tutor book)
2008 - Fintan Vallely – Traditional Irish Music, vinyl LP and cassette, Shanachie, USA. (now on CD; 2008). Sample tracks.
2008 - 1996 - Timber - the concert flute tutor - tutorial CD (reissue of cassette; replaced by 2013 CD set above)
2002 - with Mark Simos; 'Miss Chalmers’ Reel' Track on CD [ITMS 0201] Wooden Flute Obsession, ed. Krell, Kevin, International Traditional Music Society, Los Angeles (from Starry Lane to Monaghan CD)
2002 - with Tim Lyons, Big Guns And Hairy Drums, Sample tracks Whinstone, Dublin. (CD, with all songs from Knock, Knock, Knock cassette. BIG GUNS SAMPLE TRACKS HERE
1998 Irish music history voice-over for music installation at Tí Chulainnmusic/cultural centre, Mullaghbane, Co. Armagh.
1992 - The Starry Lane to Monaghan, Cassette, solo flute music, with Mark Simos, guitar. Whinstone, Dublin. Ooriginally cassette, then CD; replaced by Back to the Starry Lane' in 2021)
1988 - Track 'Dear Irish Boy' and 'Mo ghrá sa Mhaidín'/'My love in the morning', on The Totally Tin Whistle Tape (Ossian, 1988).
1986 - with Tim Lyons, T. Knock, Knock, Knock, audio cassette; Ulster Folk Music Association, Derry. Original humorous songs with flute (Fintan Vallely) and accordion (Tim Lyons). Now on CD 'Big Guns and Hairy Drums', 2002).
1996 - Timber - the concert flute tutor - tutorial cassette. Walton’s, Dublin. (replaced by 2013 CD set)
1979, 1985 - Fintan Vallely – Traditional Irish Music, vinyl LP and cassette, Shanachie, USA. (now on CD; 2008).