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https://www.jeremiahhenry.com/2012/03/irish-awareness-day/ Teaching, writing, music, photography, tech, and all the other things I do! Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:35:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.jeremiahhenry.com/2012/03/irish-awareness-day/#comment-29 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:35:37 +0000 http://www.jeremiahhenry.com/?p=335#comment-29 That’s one of the aspects of Folklore as I understand it: “Artifacts that are variable and transmitted through space and time by the ‘common folk'” – by that definition, if the art didn’t vary from performance to performance, it wouldn’t be folklore.

]]> https://www.jeremiahhenry.com/2012/03/irish-awareness-day/#comment-28 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:49:52 +0000 http://www.jeremiahhenry.com/?p=335#comment-28 Seeing the scenery on these Transatlantic Sessions gives me the itch to get to Ireland.
The stuff I’ve got posted on Donegal fiddling shows that “aural” transmission of the fiddle tunes kept them changing and developing from generation to generation even in Ireland, so the American amalgamation of Scots, Irish, and whatever other strains was the natural progression of Celtic music in both America and in the British Isles. No big puzzles, as the man in the video says.

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