re Donegal style,
I am agreat admirer of both Nealy Boyle,and Danny ODonnell,while both these players were from Donegal,they bear very little resmblance to Tommy Peoples,so there are were clearly a number of different Donegal styles,some players more powerful than others..
Michelle O Brien a modern Donegal player,is very good but no way would I describe her as powerful as Tommy Peoples is, in his reels and jigs,but she is STILL good
Perhaps more important than region is the character of an individual musician,fiddle playing can be a reflection of someones character,a sensitive person is more likely to play sensitively,and a very extrovert person is more likely to play with flamboyance,although there will always be exceptions.
To say that all Donegal fiddlers play in a certain way is as silly as saying that Mary Mcnamara and NoelHill and Chris Droney all sound the same,[they Donegal fiddlers may share certain charecteristics,much use of trebles,scottish influences in repertoire and to a varying extent style]but they do not sound the same.