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This is an archive of over 5,000 traditional songs compiled by Denis Cook, Susan Friedman and Dick Greenhaus in the USA. They are adding about 300 songs each month. It can be obtained on disc to put on your own computer or you can access it on-line. You can search for any song using a keyword in the title, or even in the lyrics, and with many of the entries there is a sound sample which your computer can play to give you an idea of the tune. The notation of over half the songs can also be printed out on your printer. For the originators, this is the best way to disseminate folk songs in the modern age - and it is free!
These are very strange things to be reading about in Treoir to be sure, but the people who participate in these exchanges of information over the telephone lines, who 'hack' away at their computer keyboards into the wee small hours for the benefit of others - these are also members of the world-wide community of Irish Traditional Music lovers. Many of them are active in weekly sessions, lots are members of Comhaltas, some are recognised recording and concert performers and others are committed teachers of traditional instruments. I felt it was important that you know they are there and what they are doing. It represents a development of the tradition.
It would be great if Comhaltas could officially get on to the Net and tell the world about our activities. I took the step of sending the dates from the Dialann page in Treoir to Irtrad-L, which brought cries of delight from those trying to plan musical holidays to Ireland, wanting to catch a Fleadh. It was instantly forwarded by one of them to the Ceolas Archive also. Treoir could easily be made available on-line like other magazines already are, and there is a lot of other useful information that CCE could very economically disseminate world-wide to the benefit of the organisation, the music and Ireland. Vince Nicotina has a vision, and I hope we will all help him to achieve it.
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Once I learned a tune at my Daddy's knee; as I grew up I learned other tunes from local musicians and we talked about the music; then I heardsome new tunes and songs on the radio; later someone sent me a tape with more tunes, and I also started buying records and CDs. Then one day I received a new tune from a computer in California and I was able to listen to it on my computer and learn to play it too. Afterwards, via computer, I exchanged some opinions about all these matters with Irish traditional musicians in other countries. It's 1995. It's only progress.
Thanks to all the above-named people whom I've never met, who helped me to write this - the Irtradders. If any readers wish to explore the Internet for Irish music and can't get local help, please contact me via Treoir and I will try to advise them.
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