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Musician: PádraigÃn Nà Uallacháin
Location: N.Ireland
Instruments: voice
Music: sean nos / Irish folk
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSICÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýWHERE I PLAYÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýA FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 ÌýÌýListen (19'48) to PádraigÃn Nà Uallacháin and Len Graham perform live from Belfast for Radio 3's World Music Day, introduced by Lucy Duran, Andrew McGregor and Dj Ritu.
ÌýÌýListen (4'34) to 'Is Fada an Lá' from the album, An DealgÓir (Gael Linn, 2002) sung by PádraigÃn Nà Uallacháin and accompanied by Pat Crowley on piano
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(4'32) to 'Tá 'na Lá', from the album, An Dealg Óir (Gael Linn, 2002) sung by PádraigÃn Nà Uallacháin and accompanied by Laoise Kelly on harp, Liam Ó Maonlaà on bodhrán and Steve Cooney on guitar.
Where I Play:
I've been playing and recording with my husband, Len Graham since 1982. You could say that we fell in love through a song. I heard him singing 'The Ballyronan Maid' at a traditional music festival. We've been involved ever since in music and song as performers and researchers and take part in many traditional music festivals, both in Ireland and abroad, especially in Scandanavia. Next year we'll be giving a concert/lecture tour in the U.S.A.
We also perform with leading Irish poets like Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney and Nuala NÃ Dhomhnaill. The poetry bonds well with the song.
Another outlet for my singing is at funerals which I consider a great honour. Somehow I'm able to transmit the collective grief of the occasion through the song. I don't sing to order. Rather there's 2 or 3 laments that I feel work. I've no difficulty in talking about death - two of my siblings have had sudden unexpected deaths. I'm at ease with the otherworld.
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