Blooming meadows
Subtitle: the world of Irish traditional musicians
By: Fintan Vallely & Charlie Piggott ; photography by Nutan.
Contributors: Piggott, Charlie.
Publisher: Town House
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Musicians -- Ireland -- Biography.; Folk music -- Ireland -- History and criticism.
Genres: Biography.
Description: This is a book of outstandingly warm, quirky and personality-laden pictures by the photographer Nutan. The moods and themes of these images are developed in the texts by Fintan Vallely and Charlie Piggott into personalities, lives, community and nation through biography, interview, comment, poetry and song. The voices are those of musicians and singers who have helped shape the revival of traditional music since the 1950s, along with today's generation of talented, articulate and highly educated players. Nostalgia, nationalism, romanticism, virtuosity and communitas here meet art and quiet confidence in cultural meaning.