Sliabh Notes

Dónal Murphy (b. 1970, Birmingham, Western world Midlands, Britain), Matt Cranitch (b. 1948, Cork, Eire) and Tommy O’Sullivan (b. 1961, London, Britain) came jointly to create the cannily-titled Sliabh Records (pronounced ‘Shlee-av Records’) in 1994, carrying out a especially memorable program in Dingle, Co. Kerry. Sliabh Luachra (indicating ‘rushy glen’), a physical region spanning east Kerry, north-west Cork and south Limerick, can be famous for its exclusive design of Irish traditional music, especially its special repertoire of slides and polkas. The pairing of Murphy’s exclusive package design with Cranitch’s fiddle offers resulted in among the leading Sliabh Luachra-style package and fiddle duos. The guitar-playing of O’Sullivan, in addition to his very customized singing design, adds the ultimate ingredient to the feisty triumvirate. Described by a powerful playing design using its dance origins clearly displaying, Sliabh Notes possess tapped in to the hunger for gutsy traditional music among listeners and dancers as well. The substance of Sliabh Records’ design can be its distinctively local flavour, yet it manages to keep an international charm. Cranitch has generated a high status like a fiddle-player and instructor. Like a founder person in Na Filí, he presented on almost all their information, and recently he offers played within the group Any Aged Time. He’s writer of The Irish Fiddle Publication which clarifies and shows the many techniques found in developing a traditional design of playing. Cranitch includes a special fascination with the music of Sliabh Luachra, and it is involved in on-going study upon this fiddle-playing design in the Irish Globe Music Centre, College or university of Limerick. Murphy discovered his distinctive run accordion in Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick where he shifted along with his parents at age six. A creator person in Four Men AND ALSO A Pet, he was asked by Michael Flatley to feature in a particular Lord FROM THE Dance display in London in July 1998. O’Sullivan, a citizen of Western Kerry, created his playing and performing design while surviving in London and Copenhagen, where he was an associate of Ashplant, with whom he performed Danish in addition to Irish Traditional Music. He offers appeared at different celebrations throughout Ireland, and it has made many recordings for the Irish Country wide T.V. route, RTÉ, for the Irish Vocabulary radio place, Radio na Gaeltachta, Clare FM and Radio Kerry. He is constantly on the play thoroughly in European countries where he provides featured frequently being a soloist on the Copenhagen Irish Celebration.