The true and everlasting tradition of folksinging is the joy of do-it-yourself artistic expression. Concerts and clubs and CDs and radio shows are great, but real folk music is made for love and sung with friends and families. It is in the home and in those parking lot jam sessions that real folk music is made.

Sometimes those informal institutions get recorded and sometimes I get to recommend them to you. Alice Flynn lives in Bozeman, MT. She loves Irish songs-- the old songs that Irish women have sung in their kitchens for centuries. She sings them with the voice of a fairy, with passion and understanding. Her singing is unaccompanied so an audience might find her music bare, even empty, but such an audience would be missing the charm and purity of real Irish music, as real as I knew when I lived in County Wicklow.

Alice's taste runs to the wistful and the woeful and the wonderful.

Purchase at www.aliceflynn.com.

MM for PFS