Maybe of some interest here: Last night a double CD ‘Ceol Agus Foinn : Music from the Willie Clancy Summer School’ was launched in Spanish Point. The CD has been produced by RTE Raidio na Gaeltachta and has 40 tracks selected from the archive of recordings from 30 years of the Willie Clancy Summer School.
Whistle-wise there are gems from Brid O Donohue, Michio Russell, Sean Ryan, Francie McPeake and Gussie Russell. it’s particularly nice to have a recording of Gussie who was notoriously shy and reluctant to play in public, included.
Also on the CD music by PJ Crotty, Nial Keegan, Junior Crehan and Boby Casey, Paddy Canny, PJ Hayes and Francie Donnellan, Joe Ryan, Sean Talty, Jimmy O Brien-Moran, Larry Kinsella, Gerdie Commane, Marty O Keeffe, Hugh Healy, Edel McWeeney, Siobhan Peoples, Bill McNamara, Tony Crehan, Vincent Griffin and others
Another launch will take place in Galway on april 18 and separate tracks will be up for purchase on iTunes.
Great stuff altogether.