Packie was a legendary flute player from Arigna, strongly influenced byPackie Duignan
Dé hAoine 27 Iúil Friday 27 July 2001 3.00 p.m. Traditional Guided Tour with Michael Tubridy to homestead of John McKenna (Tents, Tarmon), O'Carolan Tomb (Keadue), grave of Packie Duignan (Arigna) and the Josie McDermott Monument (Ballyfarnon
The Leitrim Thrush - Néillish
Mullligan
Packie Duignan’s Jig / Fasten the Leg in Her (Jigs) Another friend
of my father’s was the great flute player
Packie Duignan from Arigna, Co.
Roscommon, from whom my father got the first jig. Fasten
the Leg in Her,
was a once popular jig which suits the pipe chanter and lends itself
to melodic and rythmic variation.
An Interview with Catherine McEvoy
After Catherine moved to Ireland, she and Tom spent many weekends in
Drumshambo, Co. Leitrim, playing with
Packie Duignan, Tom
and Nellie Mulligan, and many others
Mary Bergin, tin whistle
player and passionate educationalist, talks to Mic Moroney about her life
in music
"My concern was the regional styles, which were totally neglected at
a time when the older musicians were dying off, and the new radio and television
programmes meant that the styles were becoming amalgamated."
But they fed into her own playing, as she drove around the country
in her mother's blue mini. "I used to focus in on the older musicians,
old fiddle and flute players like Packie
Duignan."
The great Belfast flute player Harry Bradley has also just released a solo CD, "Bad Turns and Horse-shoe Bends," on the Outlet <http://www.outlet-music.com/> record label. If you like Conall O'Grada or Packie Duignan, you'll like Bradley's forceful, spirited yet lovely playing
MUSIC FROM COUNTY LEITRIM. Packie
Duignan & SŽamus Horan. OSS 75.
Traditional music from the northwest on fiddle and flute.
Claddagh Records, Dame House, Dame Street, Dublin 2, Ireland phone/fax
+1-353-1-679-3664.
Retail and international mail-order. email claddagh@crl.ie (Finbar
Boyle)
Various Artists Traditional Irish Music
Temple Records (www.templerecords.co.uk)
. This CD is a compilation of 25 tracks
Among those playing flutist Packie
Duigan from Co. Roscommon, and Seamus Horan, a Leitrim fiddler.
Horan's fiddling possesses a delightful drive, in some ways reminiscent
of the Sligo style. He is well matched in duets by the melodic fluidity
of Duignan, whose breathy approach revitalizes even the most hackneyed
of tunes. Robin Morton (bodhran) and Sean Wynne (whistle) occasionally
add accompanim
.Flute players who play with a strong rhythm include:
John McKenna
Peter Horan
Seamus Tansey
Eddie Cahill
Desi Wilkinson
Conal O'Grada
Cathal McConnell
Eamonn CotterHammy Hamilton
Frankie Gavin
Josie McDermott
Packie Duignan
Micko Russell
Catherine McEvoy
Marcus HernonAlbum of the Week
Dervish: "Live in Palma"From the opening Packie Duignan's set to the penultimate Killavil Jigs this is simply a brilliant Album