paddy barry was technically good he could get in to third position on the fiddle will cotter was a good playerition.
Bantry IS 10.5 MILES FROM Dunbeacon church where i lived and about 11 miles from where you were, not 20.
why are you bringing ballydehob in to this .
i made a remark about media and radio exposure of trad music, i did not criticise the uk folk revival neither did i say ballydehob was a hotbed of trad music[ ihave been back in dunbeacon not ballydehob for 3 years
there was irish musicians playing in west cork Seamus Creagh had a weekly gig in the corner bar.
the ghastly piper you referred to was actually a very.good piper, she[ was of irih extraction her parents were irish ] and played in a band with an irish musician called martin mcgrath who was living at that time in west cork and was from Kerry., she was a much better piper than the man who called you an entertainer who played a set of pipes without regulators [hugh quinn] from skibbereen, also irish
PADDY BARRYS granddaughter lives in ballydehob and there is a picture of her as a child playing at the weekly session that Cathy Cook[ [ that wone wasnothing to do with andy or jane] started which was held every week in Rosies, it still goes on every friday in different pubs[ i remember Charlie Piggott dropped in once back in 1995
it s people like anita barry that are the future in ireland