These are seven selected excerpts from a documentary film featuring
fourteen of Ireland's top female musicians.
October, 2000: After a quick visit to my own home area, in West Cork, Ben
and I set out to
film conversations with Ireland's most celebrated women musicians,
representing a cross-section of the many streams of Irish music.
I should add that full transcriptions of in-depth interviews
with over 30 Celtic women musicians, from all over the Celtic
world, can be read in my book Celtic Women in Music,
published by Quarry Music Books (1999).
The book is still available new and used on Amazon.com
These talented women present us with an intimate experience
of the inner workings of Celtic culture, especially in Ireland.
Music can
bring great comfort when we feel wrapped in the warmth, intelligence
and skill of talented artists. Each time our attention is captured
by good musicians we make new discoveries about the spirit of
humanity, in the poetry of their songs and in their new combinations
of rhythms and melodies.
