The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #39728   Message #565765
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
05-Oct-01 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing tunes WANTED: Part SEVEN
Malcolm Douglas- a respectful correction re The Magpie's Nest. The actual recording was made by Jean Ritchie and George Pickow (who also took still b&w photos of the event)in the Makem cottage in Keady, Co. Armagh, in 1952. Singer was Annie Jane Kelly. Sean O'Boyle was a near neighbor but was not present on that evening.

Peter Kennedy and Seamus Ennis had been most kind in giving us names and addresses of folks they had visited before, throughout England, Scotland and Ireland. Sarah Makem organized that evening's ceilidh, and several folks were there who had not been recorded before by Ennis/Kennedy, Annie Jane being one of them. We gave copies of our tapes to Peter Kennedy upon our return to London, a few weeks later. Jean Ritchie