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Recordings featuring Fintan Vallely

Fintan ValleyIrish Traditional Flute Music

Traditional Irish Flute Music

This is Fintan Vallely’s first album, recorded while in America in the early autumn of 1979, and released as LP and cassette in 1984. In it his style is raw and fresh, yet rounded and solid. He plays here with Mark Simos (guitar, who played on his second album also, The Starry Lane to Monaghan), CB Heinemann (bouzouki) and Lori Cole (piano and English concertina). [click to continue…]

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The Starry Lane to Monaghan – Fintan Vallely and Mark Simos

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Very old and new selections of Irish and Scottish Traditional Music from and in the Irish and Scottish traditions, promenaded in vibrant, eclectic humour on flute and guitar.

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Big Guns and Hairy Drums – Tim Lyons & Fintan Vallely

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Comic and satirical lyrics of the modern time about hamburgers, politicians, murder, drink, sex, religion, statues, Jesus, Ben Dunne, Willie McBride, false teeth, the weather, potholed roads, and everybody’s scapegoat, that shockingly authentic icon of ‘roots’ music – the bodhrán.

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