Obit: Lucy Farr

Subject: RE: Obit: Lucy Farr
From: Felipa
Date: 06 Feb 03 - 06:18 PM

shorter biographical article at http://www.iol.ie/~ronolan/

Subject: RE: Obit: Lucy Farr
From: Fleadhman
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 04:24 PM

May the good Lord be cheered by her music. The article in the Musical Traditions is a must read.
Seamus Brogan

Subject: RE: Obit: Lucy Farr
From: GUEST,Matthew Edwards
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 03:54 PM

Alice:- Veteran Mail Order are still carrying this cassette, VT123 Heart and Home, in their catalogue. They can take credit card orders from anywhere in the world, but I'm not sure whether they operate an online ordering service. There are lots of other goodies in the catalogue.

Subject: RE: Obit: Lucy Farr
From: ard mhacha
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 11:33 AM

The Irish Post [London] also had an obituary on her. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: Obit: Lucy Farr
From: Alice
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 10:59 AM

Malcolm, thanks for the link to the page about Lucy Farr on the Musical Traditions web site. I read it last night. She was a remarkable woman.
Does anyone have a link for getting her tape recording, "Heart and Home"?

Alice

Subject: RE: Obit: Lucy Farr
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 09:35 PM

I'd never heard of her but there was some sadness in the session I go to tonight. One person even played a tune he learned from her as a tribute.

Subject: RE: Obit: Lucy Farr
From: Aidan Crossey
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 09:24 PM

There'll never be her likes again.

Rest in peace.

Aidan

Subject: RE: Obit: Lucy Farr
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 07:51 PM

Article at Musical Traditions:

Lucy Farr

Subject: RE: Obit: Lucy Farr
From: GUEST,Matthew Edwards
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 06:40 PM

Lucy was a lovely fiddle player, who only deserved much greater appreciation, I have a cassette of her playing which I'll listen to tonight. This is sad news indeed.

Subject: Obit: Lucy Farr
From: curmudgeon
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 03:42 PM

The following was posted on Concertina.net by Roger Digby. While I am not familiar with this woman's contributions, they must have been many and worthy.
I heard this evening that Lucy Farr has died; she was 91. Before moving in later years to the Basingstoke area she was a major fiddle player in the Irish communities of London. She would play in sessions, sit in with The Rakes, and played many a duet with flute-playerTommy Healy. She was one of those people whose character was, in my view, reflected in her music. She was a sensitive, caring, sweet-natured person and those adjectives also apply to her playing and her music. But neither she nor her music lacked confidence in any way. She was held in awe in some of the toughest musical company! She had a repertoire which included a number of untitled tunes and these are regularly referred to as Lucy's Polka No 1, etc.
I am sure that a number of obituaries will follow that will give her the credit that she richly deserves.
She was very small in stature and, while still in London, she often appeared frail. I think it was in The Favourite (London's foremost Irish music pub, where Jimmy Power held court for years, and which closed last month to be demolished for the Arsenal's new stadium!) that someone who had not seen her for a while came up to her with the immortal words: Jees, Lucy. You look like a snipe after a hard winter!.
It was always a pleasure to be in her company.
God bless her.
Roger Digby