I've heard ye talking about "the fathers" when referring to Irish Traditional music before Donal Lunny, Planxty etc. Who were "the fathers" and where were the mothers in all this?? (Left at home making a cure for the hangovers next morning??)
Carrie*
I pretty much consider those old geezers sitting around the tap at a pub, playing their old tunes, to be the "fathers". Besides, they are the ones who preserved the music during the English occupation. Or maybe it was the ones before them.
The 'mothers' were, no doubt, singing and playing and dancing, in the privacy of their own homes, in between the washing and the ironing, and at 'céilis' (in the pre-dance-hall sense of the word), and playing as much of a part in the transmission of music, song and dance as the 'fathers'. It wasn't until such people as Elizabeth Crotty, Julia Clifford, Lucy Farr and Margaret Barry began playing and singing in public that individual women began to be recognized in traditional music circles.
"the fathers"
"the fathers"
I've heard ye talking about "the fathers" when referring to Irish Traditional music before Donal Lunny, Planxty etc. Who were "the fathers" and where were the mothers in all this?? (Left at home making a cure for the hangovers next morning??)
Carrie*
# Posted on May 27th 2003 by carrie
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"Fathers" is a generational thing. Even Donal Lunny is now a grand father
# Posted on May 27th 2003 by llig leahcim
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I pretty much consider those old geezers sitting around the tap at a pub, playing their old tunes, to be the "fathers". Besides, they are the ones who preserved the music during the English occupation. Or maybe it was the ones before them.
# Posted on May 28th 2003 by fadah
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The 'mothers' were, no doubt, singing and playing and dancing, in the privacy of their own homes, in between the washing and the ironing, and at 'céilis' (in the pre-dance-hall sense of the word), and playing as much of a part in the transmission of music, song and dance as the 'fathers'. It wasn't until such people as Elizabeth Crotty, Julia Clifford, Lucy Farr and Margaret Barry began playing and singing in public that individual women began to be recognized in traditional music circles.
# Posted on May 28th 2003 by CreadurMawnOrganig