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Mon 12 Dec 2009And then there were three
The Donegal fiddle style – fiery pacing, assertive bowing patterns and a fondness for ‘playing the octave’ – is now in the hands of a young trio called Fidil, writes Siobhán Long
THERE’S SOMETHING brewing in the north-west these days. A young fiddling trio have cast their collective eyes and ears over a rake of traditional music from their home place and have made it unassailably their own. If, as Gweedore fiddler Ciarán Ó Maonaigh suggests, the mark of a good musician is his or her ability “to take a good composition and make it a great tune”, then Fidil must be have been mainlining decent tunes from the get-go.
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