In planning this record I set myself the objectives firstly of including a cross-section of all the basic types of Irish traditional music as I know them, and secondly of playing mainly the tunes with which I grew up in the townland of Ballykett near Kilrush in west Clare. I consider myself fortunate in having been reared in the country - my parents were
farmers and they both loved traditional music and dancing. My mother played a little on the concertina and two of her brothers were also musicians; in fact our neighbourhood had many musicians and house dances were a regular feature
of our rural life. Finally all the instruments on the record are played by myself, the combinations being made possible by the marvels of modern recording equipment.
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