Sliabh Luachra music
Summary
Sliabh Luachra music is the instrumental and dance-music tradition associated with the Cork–Kerry border country and adjoining west Limerick. Polkas and slides are particularly important, alongside jigs, reels, airs and other repertoire.
Contemporary and trending
Current recordings and concert performances keep this repertoire in circulation. The listening collection includes recent and worthwhile earlier versions, with performer and version credits retained; it does not treat an upload date as a composition date. Pádraig O’Keeffe, Denis Murphy, Julia Clifford, Jackie Daly, Matt Cranitch, Paudie O’Connor and Sliabh Notes provide historical and contemporary routes. Tribute performances credit the actual players rather than automatically naming the person commemorated.[1]
History
Fiddle teaching, household music, dancing and later accordion playing connected local communities. Pádraig O’Keeffe, Denis Murphy and Julia Clifford are major historical figures, with continuing transmission through later musicians and gatherings.[2]
Musical characteristics
Polka and slide rhythms, phrasing, bowing and ornament create distinctive dance lift. Fiddle and button accordion are prominent; the region’s music is not adequately represented by a generic Irish reel playlist alone.
Geography and communities
The musical landscape crosses county boundaries around places such as Ballydesmond, Knocknagree, Gneeveguilla and Castleisland. It is a cultural region with diffuse edges, not a synonym for all of Munster.[3]
Artists
Pádraig O’Keeffe, Denis Murphy, Julia Clifford, Jackie Daly, Matt Cranitch, Paudie O’Connor and Sliabh Notes provide historical and contemporary routes. Tribute performances credit the actual players rather than automatically naming the person commemorated.
Recording entrances
Jackie Daly — Jackie Daly: The Gullane/The Blackwater 1/The Blackwater 2 Polkas [4]; Jackie Daly; Alec Finn — Jackie Daly and Alec Finn: Mr. O'Connor[5]. These are particular versions, not a claim that every work by each performer belongs here.
Related genres
Irish traditional; Donegal fiddle music; Sean-nós singing.
References
- ↑ Sliabh Luachra Music Trail: the musical region.
- ↑ Sliabh Luachra Music Trail: the musical region.
- ↑ Sliabh Luachra Music Trail: the musical region.
- ↑ Jackie Daly: The Gullane/The Blackwater 1/The Blackwater 2 Polkas — primary release/performance credits.
- ↑ Jackie Daly and Alec Finn: Mr. O'Connor — primary release/performance credits.
Third-party material retains its credited licenses.
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