Maeve Donnelly is one of the top Irish traditional fiddle players known for her unique style within the traditional Irish music genre.
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Life and education
editDonnelly was born near Kylemore Abbey in Loughrea in East Galway, Ireland. She now lives in Quin, County Clare .[1] She has been playing music since she was a child and won her first All-Ireland Fiddle Competition when she was nine despite her parents not being musicians. However her family has developed a musical tradition with her three brothers playing the accordion, banjo, and fiddle.[2]
Donnelly toured the US for the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, and again in 1978 and 1983. She went on to win two more All-Ireland fiddle titles in the 1970s and the National Slogadh Competition for Solo Fiddle and The Stone Fiddle Competition in County Fermanagh in 1981.[3]
Donnelly went to college in Dublin and when she graduated she moved to live in Clare.[2] She works touring, recording and tutoring when she isn't working as a teacher.[4][3]
Discography
edit- Sailing Into Walpole's Marsh - Mairéad Ní Domhnaill, Sean Corcoran, Eddie Clarke, Maeve Donnelly - 1977
- Moving Cloud - Paul Brock, Manus McGuire, Kevin Crawford, Carl Hession, Maeve Donnelly - 1995
- Foxglove - Moving Cloud - 1998
- Her Infinite Variety - Celtic Women (compilation album) - 1998
- Éigse Dhiarmuidín - Live recordings in concert (compilation album) - 2001
- Maeve Donnelly - Maeve Donnelly - 2002
- The Thing Itself - Maeve Donnelly, Peadar O'Loughlin - 2004
- Flame On The Banks - Maeve Donnelly with Tony McManus - 2008
References
edit- ^ Tim McCarrick (1 September 2007). "Fiddler Magazine". Fiddle. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Maeve Donnelly: Maeve Donnelly". Celticgrooves.homestead.com. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Virtuoso Fiddler Maeve Donnelly Returns to Coatesville". Irishphiladelphia.com. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
- ^ "Tutors - Meitheal Summer School -". Tradweek.com. Retrieved 7 October 2016.