Can I make a plug for our own work here?
Back in the early seventies we began recording the older generation in West Clare.
A few years ago we approached our local County Library, which already had an impressive website of traditional music, but no songs, despite the fact that the County was rich in traditional song
They jumped at the idea, and set two librarians to work preparing over five hundred of our songs.
They gave us carte blanche to annotate the songs – the whole project took over two years and the end result was something to be proud of
CLARE SONGS
Our good friend, Len Graham, has suggested thgat "Every County should have one" and there is no reason why they shouldn't.
They are now preparing ours and a friends recordings of local musicians and Clare musicians we recorded in London playing and talking about the old music in its natural environment .
Recently, The World Music Centre at Limerick University have agreed to take our collection for their students and, on the strength of our thirty-odd years work with Irish Travellers in London, are now considering a Travellers website.
Just goes to show what can be done if you push the right buttons
Jim Carroll