- Paddy Fahey
Paddy Fahey (aka Paddy Fahy, born 1926) is an Irish composer and
fiddle r who is considered one of the finest living composersFact|date=February 2008 of tunes that are in the style oftraditional Irish music .Fahey is from
Kilconnell in East Galway. His music has a distinctive yearning, magical quality often referred to as "Draíocht". [ [http://www.chulrua.com/workshop.html Chulrua.com] : "" is a Gaelic word meaning 'spiritual power' or 'soul.'"] His music has been recorded by many of the finest traditional Irish musicians including Martin Hayes,Planxty , John Carty andKevin Burke . In recent years a few recordings featured Fahey's music prominently including recordings by Liz andYvonne Kane andBreda Keville .Fahey is something of an enigma in the traditional Irish music world in that he has never made a commercial recording despite the fact that he is an exceptional fiddler, nor has he published a book of his compositions. There are some privately made recordings of Fahey which have been distributed amongst musicians since the 1970s, and transcriptions of his tunes are found in many tune collections and on Internet resources such as "www.thesession.org". [http://www.thesession.org/]
Fahey has never given his compositions names, instead they tend to be simply named "Paddy Fahey's Reel No.1", "Paddy Fahey's Jig No.2", etc. His known compositions number around 60 tunes, all of which are either
jig s, reels orhornpipe s.In 2001 Fahey was named Composer of The Year by Irish Language TV station
TG4 at their annual award ceremony 'Gradam Ceoil TG4'.Literary sources
*Vallely, Fintan (ed.), "The Companion to Traditional Irish Music." Cork University Press, Cork, 1999
*Holohan, Maria. "The Tune Compositions of Paddy Fahey." MA Thesis, University of Limerick, 1995References
External links
* [http://www.iol.ie/~ronolan/fahey.html RamblingHouse]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.