The Stone Fiddle
In 1979, when The Stone Fiddle first appeared, The Irish Times wrote that ‘Paddy Tunney's book is much more than a collection of songs … only infrequently can a study be said to reveal a culture from within. When such an event occurs, the result can be electrifying, and such is the effect of The Stone Fiddle, undoubtedly a of piece literature, and yet so directed by the oral tradition that the pages dance with a degree of life denied to most literary works.’
Now, after many years out of print, Tunney Song Tradition Trust is making this 1970s’ classic available to a new generation of traditional song and music enthusiasts.
In 1979, when The Stone Fiddle first appeared, The Irish Times wrote that ‘Paddy Tunney's book is much more than a collection of songs … only infrequently can a study be said to reveal a culture from within. When such an event occurs, the result can be electrifying, and such is the effect of The Stone Fiddle, undoubtedly a of piece literature, and yet so directed by the oral tradition that the pages dance with a degree of life denied to most literary works.’
Now, after many years out of print, Tunney Song Tradition Trust is making this 1970s’ classic available to a new generation of traditional song and music enthusiasts.
In 1979, when The Stone Fiddle first appeared, The Irish Times wrote that ‘Paddy Tunney's book is much more than a collection of songs … only infrequently can a study be said to reveal a culture from within. When such an event occurs, the result can be electrifying, and such is the effect of The Stone Fiddle, undoubtedly a of piece literature, and yet so directed by the oral tradition that the pages dance with a degree of life denied to most literary works.’
Now, after many years out of print, Tunney Song Tradition Trust is making this 1970s’ classic available to a new generation of traditional song and music enthusiasts.