Though there's nobody I imitate (though I try), if I could sound like one fiddler, it would be Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh. My biggest musical inspirations for fiddle playing are Alasdair Fraser, Mhaonaigh, and Tommy Peoples. For chantey singing, Louis Killen, Lloyd and MacColl. The first album of chanteys I ever heard was A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl's Whaling Ballads. It remains my favorite sea music recording, and got me interested in it in the first place. Louis Killen is for me the epitome of a chantey singer. Absolutely at the top of the heap.

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