2018 National Folk Festival Presentation

Enjoy a taste of the 2018 National Folk Festival with a special presentation by Fintan Vallely

Irish musician, writer, researcher and lecturer Fintan Vallely values the aesthetic magic, romance, myths and chances that lead us into the uptake of traditional music, song and dance. But he has learned that events and organisation alone don’t sustain the art-form in the face of the seduction of pop sensibility: they are underpinned by collections, recordings and archives as resources vital to learning instruments, tunes, songs and steps.

Fintan Vallely is a musician, writer, lecturer and researcher on Traditional Irish music. From Co. Armagh, he has taught flute at the Willie Clancy summer school in Co. Clare since 1986, and in that year was the author of the first tutor for Irish flute. A commentator on Traditional music, he has been writing about it since 1990, and lecturing on it at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, University of Ulster, Trinity College Dublin, Dundalk Institute of Technology and in the USA.

In association with the National Folk Festival.