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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.
A favourite song:
'Is Fada an Lá' expresses the raw emotion of sorrow and loss by a young unmarried woman who is abandoned by her lover for another woman of means and property. It's unadorned and direct and is an outstanding example of the complex art of traditional Irish song. It was collected by the McKeown family in Crossmaglen, Co. Armagh and written down by Sean Hannon at the turn of the 20th century. The music was actually recorded separately by collector, Luke Donnellan and later transcribed by the piper, Seamus Ennis for the Irish Folklore Commission in Dublin.
 'Tá 'na Lã' or 'One for the Road' by contrast is a dance tune and drinking song very popular throughout all of Ireland. An old woman called Mary Michil Tarry Hollywood sung it for my mother, Eithne back in 1942 while sitting on a wall in the neighbourhood where I now live.
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