The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #18568   Message #185210
Posted By: Stewie
26-Feb-00 - 04:45 AM
Thread Name: Doing research: need help!! women in trad music
Subject: RE: Doing research: need help!!
McGrath, I tend to agree with you there. She gives no rationale for its inclusion apart from saying that she learned it from the singing of Margaret Barry. She did also comment that it was usually considered 'too delicate' for street singing, yet the version she sang came from one of Ireland's greatest street singers - Margaret Barry - who, in turn, apparently learned it from a John MacCormack phonograph recording!

--Stewie.