Talk:James Byrne (musician)

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Criteria for reinstatement of the James Byrne (musician page) I believe this page's existence is justified by the following points: --Celt Mac Éireann (talk) 08:01, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Original Works by the Artist

The road to Glenlough THE BRASS FIDDLE - TRADITIONAL FIDDLE MUSIC FROM DONEGAL

Influence on Regional Style Donegal Fiddle Music The home of Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí This is a summer school where he teaches local and international fiddle students. To become a student in his masterclasses one has to audition for a place.

In the Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí website, James Byrne appears with present and past legends of Donegal fiddle music: John Doherty, Con Cassidy, Neillidh Boyle, Tommy Peoples, Dinny McLaughlin.

Reputation

He has been interviewed on the subject of Donegal Fiddle music by BBC Northern Ireland Learning Programme 2 The South Donegal Fiddle. He was also featured in an interview in Fiddler magazine in spring 1999. A copy of the interview can be found here.

When the page was created, it automatically connected to 5 other pages in Wikipedia which already had a link to it!

Fan Popularity

Tunes associated with him appear on The Session. The session is a world-wide community of enthusiasts of, and major database of information for, traditional Celtic music. All the albums on this page cover his tune.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6464/spcl.html The Fiddlers and Their Music] Another fan site.

Videos of his work can be found on:

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Donegal_fiddle_tradition/Video

As well as Youtube search results for "James Byrne"

Canúintí Ceoil (Part 1) 4327 hits Canúintí Ceoil (Part 2) 5863 hits Canúintí Ceoil (Part 3) 1961 hits

James Byrne, Tommy Peoples, Danny Meehan 3255 hits

James Byrne 1092 hits

References for use
References do not belong in External links but they do belong here. Be careful in choosing any of them, since I haven't had the chance to look them over to see that they meet the notability criteria and contain an NPOV. Thank you for helping!! :) --Leahtwosaints (talk) 22:19, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * http://scottishclothingstore.com/sr_swmus_CC52CD


 * http://celticgrooves.homestead.com/CG_Various_Brass_Fiddle.html


 * http://www.donegalfiddlemusic.ie/events.htm


 * http://www.dun-na-ngall.com/nw76.html


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Peoples


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doherty_(musician)


 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/11_16/music/traditions/pdf/series1/notes02.pdf


 * http://www.fiddle.com/issues/spr99.html


 * http://www.standingstones.com/jbyrne.html


 * http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/266


 * http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6464/spcl.html


 * http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Donegal_fiddle_tradition/Video

Tighten Up Some Claims

"By 1980, many of the older local musicians had died, and Donegal music was being played only in isolated pubs." Much of the fiddle music in Donegal was (and still is) played in houses rather than pubs (pub sessions being a recent innovation, and being more associated with traditional music as it occurs in towns). Through most of the Gaeltacht pub sessions are where you will find younger players, the old people still play in each others houses.

"the legendary fiddler, Tommy Peoples"; since this is an encyclopaedia article rather than a fawning newspaper article, I think that the term "legendary fiddler" can safely be omitted. Tommy Peoples is not fictional and can be just as well referred to by the title 'fiddler' (it's the term he uses himself!)
 * Point made!!

"His style is the old Donegal style." There was not just one "old Donegal style", which is implied by your use of "the". There are several old traditional styles in Donegal which are not the same style as James Byrne's style. He played in A traditional style, not THE traditional style. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.42.241.13 (talk) 04:43, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The above comments carry merit. The Wikipedia can really use a (registered) editor who might be willing to fix some of these issues and have their own talk page to discuss them. Please join us, and sign your comments with four tildes like this: ```` Thanks. Wish I'd seen the comment earlier! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 22:19, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

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