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Pecker Dunne Artist in Residence
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Pecker Dunne Singer & banjo-player Pecker Dunne was born into a travelling family in Wexford in 1933. He started his playing career on a fiddle he made himself. He busked widely in Ireland, England and France and is widely known around Ireland. He has wirtten many songs, perhaps the best-known of which is Sullivan's John which was made famous by the ground-breaking traditional band Sweeney's Men. For the past 20 years or so he could be heard singing and playing the banjo in Killarney and at Munster Final day in Thurles. He featured in the film Trojan Eddie with Richard Harris and Stephen Rea. Nowadays he lives in Killimer Co Clare and plays regularly with his teenage children, all of whom are talented traditional players on various instruments. His albums include Travellin' People from Ireland, with the legendary Margaret Barry and others on the Mulligan label which was re-released as The Very Best of Pecker Dunne in 2001. In November 2001, he was a special guest at La´ na nAmhra´n, the IWMC's annual celebration of traditional song and performed as part of that event at the Limerick City Gallery of Art. He was also one of the featured artists at the NOMAD concert at the University Concert Hall Limerick in September 2001. He is artist-in-residence at the Irish World Music Centre for 2002 as part of the HEA-funded NOMAD Project at the University of Limerick. (See further details on the NOMAD project in the 'Bealach' section of this brochure)
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