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ONE of Clare’s newest traditional music festivals came of age this weekend as music classes were added to the ever-expanding programme.
For the first time in its five-year his- tory, the Ellen (Nell) Galvin Trad1- tional Music Weekend hosted classes in tin whistle and bodhran with Karen McInerney, fiddle classes with Vincent Griffin, flute classes with Paddy O’Donoghue and set dancing classes with Mary Murrihy.
The festival to honour the talented Moyasta woman opened on Friday night.
The local legend that was Nell Galvin was born in Ballydinneen,
Knockalough on March 1, 1887.
She learned to play the fiddle un- der the blind piper Garret Barry. Nell was the first Clare woman to broad- cast traditional Irish music from RTE radio, known at the time as 2 RN.