130 portraits and commentary from 25 years of the Willie Clancy Summer School
This book is a hardback bound edition of 130 black & white photographs selected from the many images that Tony Kearns has taken of classes, sessions, recitals, ceilis and formal portraits at the renowned Willie Clancy Summer School from 1992 to 2007.
The Willie Clancy Summer School is one of the most important events in the traditional Irish music calendar anywhere in the world and attracts the best musicians, singers and dancers as well as thousands of enthusiasts to the small town of Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland, for one heady week each July.
The book also features a foreword by Nicholas Carolan, the director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin and writer & presenter of the RTE series 'Come West Along The Road', as well as an introduction by the directors of the Summer School, Muiris Ó Rócháin and Harry Hughes. This is a unique publication, possibly the first photographic study of an exclusively Irish traditional music subject and it has been generously supported by the Arts Council of Ireland under its Deis Traditional Arts Initiative.This book is a hardback bound edition of 130 black & white photographs selected from the many images that Tony Kearns has taken of classes, sessions, recitals, ceilis and formal portraits at the renowned Willie Clancy Summer School from 1992 to 2007.
This book is printed on the finest of paper and hence weighs 1032 grammes, so check out postage before ordering. A perfect for any lover of Irish traditional music.
Also checkout this double CD which features music and song from The Willie Clancy Summer School; a perfect companion to this book. RTE 280CD
