The Annual World Fiddle Day Recital which takes place each May in Scartaglin Village Co Kerry is a fun event and features players of all ages,boys and girls, women and men sitting down together for a chat and a tune.The “Setlist” each year is chosen in advance so fiddle players can learn the tunes ahead of time.
The idea is simple , to honour the Sliabh Luachra  musicians of old and the music they played and to re- introduce some tunes back into the Community.
This year’s World Fiddle Day Scartaglin Fiddle Recital ‘ Handed Down … Through the Airwaves’ will be presented by  fiddle players Aoife Nic Chormaic and her husband Steve Larkin and their son Cuan
They have selected their choices from the Archives and  it’s going to be a great occasion with the following musicians honoured 
Willie O Connell, Sonny Riordan , Paddy Cronin, Julia Clifford , Mick Culloty,Seán Abeyta, Billy Clifford , Bridgie Kelliher, Denis Murphy , Seamus Ennis .
Aoife presents the Rolling Wave RTE Radio 1 programme every Sunday night at 9 pm .
She will follow in the footsteps of Seamus Ennis, Andrias O Gallachóir , Ciarán O MacMathuna, Pat Feeley and Peter Browne who all came from Radio Eireann to record in Scartaglin . 
They can be accessed on the Handed Down Sliabh Luachra Archive on SoundCloud or through the website worldfiddledayscartaglin.ie
“ Bring your fiddle and  join in “
Bio info on the musicians on worldfiddledayscartaglin.ie

World Fiddle Day Scartaglin 2022 Fiddle Recital “SETLIST” Sat May 21

Martin O Connor Cordal is one of the rare remaining pupils still playing fiddle . Here he is joined by a great young fiddler Seán Michael Redican  from Tralee ..

Martin O Connor Cordal Pupil Of Padraig O Keeffe And Sean Michael Redican Tralee

Set 7 Give The Girl Her Fourpence And Mickey Rattlers

Set 5 Scatter The Mud,McMahons Fav,Tonra ‘s  JIGS

Tunes slightly slowed to aid learning.
O Rourke’s,Galtee Rangers,the Woman of the House

Set 4 Reels  May  1949  Dublin

Set 3 The Munster Jig And Tell Her I Am   JIGS

This was recorded in the eighties by a visitor to Bridgie’s house , he was an American Sliabh Luachra enthusiast called Jim Marsh .  Bridgie was of course a sister of Julia and a fine fiddle player herself .

Set 2 The Star Above The Garter And The Lisheen SLIDES

Set 1 Con Thadgos,The Gullane,Mikey Buckleys   POLKAS

Con Moynihan, Sean Abeyta, Mick Culloty, Colleen Freeman at Fagins Bar

John Brosnan- Master Box Player - Concert Set From Scartaglin

Brothers Paddy and Willie O Connell from Cordal were 2 of Pádraig O Keeffe’s pupils and were hugely influential to many younger musicians in the Castleisland area , generous with their manuscripts and tunes to anyone who called.

The Long Note

Pigeon on the Gate

We are delighted to launch the first piece of music selected from the donated musical treasures that the family of Kathleen Fitzgerald have kindly allowed theSliabh Luachra world to hear .The Handed Down Sliabh Luachra Archive were helped on this project by Kerry ETB Funding which helped to save the tapes and digitise .We will release audio on October 29 on Soundcloud and on every Monday morning till mid March 2024

Bridgie Kelleher Playing Fiddle In  Lisheen Session

SLOW Tom Dahilly's Fiddle, O'Mahoney's

Sean Fleming And Sean Butler Galtee Rangers Set- Outdoor Recording

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/cornelius-o-sullivan-obituary?id=54788071&utm_source=webshareapi&utm_medium=share_button&utm_campaign=wsapimobile_betaRecorded by Charlie Mulvihill whose daughter also plays piano on some tunes. This was recorded shortly after Dr Corneilus P O Sullivan’s  return to New York where he was born .  Having gone to school in Gneeveguilla and Killarney before studying medicine in UCD he was a friend and devotee of Denis Murphy’s playing. This was recorded in the Bronx and posted  later to Denis Murphy’s apartment in the Bronx by Charle Mulvihill.

Lisheen Attic Tape  Cornelius P O Sullivan and Denis Murphy

Lisheen Attic Tape - Denis Murphy and Charlie Mulvihill Bronx Recording

Denis Murphy  And Mikey Duggan Polkas Recorded In Lyons Bar 1972

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Set 7 Give The Girl Her Fourpence And Mickey Rattlers

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