A Sense of Place has been a feature of the West of Ireand 'Clare Festival of Traditional Singing' for many years. Singers from different localities have been invited to sing and play examples of songs from their area and discuss how they resonate in their native surroundings.
At this year's festival it is programmed as a seminar:
"My Own Place – Does it Define Me?
Róisin White, Páidí Ó Lionárd, Jerry O'Reilly, Sean Mone, Treasa Ní Cheannabháin."
"the similarity between regional accents and the landscape that those people were from"
Alan Lomax and the Cantometrics team, which surveyed the features that went into traditional singing dealt with this in depth, discussing the effect that the landscape had on singing style. One of the most memorable statements from this work was the description of the singing of Northern singer Robert Cinnamond as "terraced style" - anybody who knows Cinnamond's singing will know what they meant.
Jim Carroll