FLEADH CEOIL '75
Dolphin Records, 1975, DOL M.5013
This album features some of the musicians who took part in the 1975 edition of the All-Ireland Fleadh in Buncrana co. Donegal. Some musicians are quite famous like Jackie Daly or Jim McKillop. Michael Flatley (yes the future Lord of the Dance himself) was there too on flute.
Already some foreign musicians came over but maybe not in huge numbers like it has been the case since the eighties. Among them a Dutch trio was recorded with metal flute, mandolin and guitar. It looks like they were appreciated as they were given three tracks on this album. Their name King's Galliard sounds quite English to me but they probably played other types of music as well. Two Breton musicians were also recorded on bombarde and scottish bagpipe : Daniel Corcuff and Alan Kloatr respectively. Kloatr was already quite famous as an uilleann piper and flute player. He was a member of Alan Stivell's band. He died in 2018. Here they played a ''gavottenn'' which ends abruptely followed by a Breton march.
It is difficult to know how or where all these musicians were recorded; I'd say in studio, not on stage.
Special mention to Joe Harris on A5 who won the lilting competition.
The work on the titles is very poor with lots of mistakes or approximations; for example on B3 McKernes reel is McKenna's reel; on B9 Jackie Daly's Fancy is in fact the four-part jig the Gold Ring. The title itself is wrong for it should be Fleadh Cheoil (na hÉireann).
Nevertheless there are some good moments especially if you like Irish trad music a lot.
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