NA FILI

[AngelRodriguez]

Alguien entiende Español?

Busco información acerca de los discos de Na Fili :

"The Chanter's Tune";
"A Kindly Welcome";
"3".

sobre todo de qué años son?

alguien sabe algo sobre la vida de los componentes del grupo después de su disolución, le quedaría muy agradecido

Angel Rodriguez

[lixnaw]

http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/Tun ... &find=FIND

adios amigo, apesadumbrado, no tengo ningún español, gracias a los pescados de Babel que podría escribir esperanza de this.i es lo que usted significó

http://world.altavista.com/

Feliz Navidad!

[AngelRodriguez]

Ok, ok!!

Somebody understands Spanish?
I look for information about discs of Na Fili: "The Chanter's Tune"; "To Kindly Welcome"; "3".
mainly of what years they are?
somebody knows something on the life of the components of the group after its dissolution, to him would be been thankful very

thanks for the advice Altavista Translated

( I play acustic guitar )

[lixnaw]

sorry, i was way of the mark there amigo i wouldn't know about Na Fili.
apesadumbrado, era manera del amigo de la marca allí
no sabría sobre Na Fili.

[AngelRodriguez]

you do not worry and thanks for your interest.

Where stays, the U.S.A.? Canada?

[fel bautista]

Matt Cranich still plays fiddle; Tomas O Canan (sp?) I believe has retired from UCC but still plays uilleann pipes; and I can't remember the third member for the life of me.

Hope this helps

[kenr]

Na Fili were popular in the mid to late 1970s having started in around 1968 or 69. There is no publication date on a couple of the LPs I have. But Na Fili 3 was issued around 1973 or 4, their final LP The Chanters Tune was around 1979. Matt Crannich went on to form Any Old Time then Sliabh Notes. Tomas O'Cannain has written books about Irish music and tune books, he still performs occasionally. Tom Barry was a teacher and I presume continued with that career when the group broke up.

Ken

[burnsbyrne]

Ok, ok!!

Somebody understands Spanish?
I look for information about discs of Na Fili: "The Chanter's Tune"; "To Kindly Welcome"; "3".
mainly of what years they are?
somebody knows something on the life of the components of the group after its dissolution, to him would be been thankful very

thanks for the advice Altavista Translated

( I play acustic guitar )

No se nada de Na Fili tambien, pero queiro domandarti se tocas la guitarra a cuerdas de nylon? Entonces, tocas un poco el flamenco. I used to play until I had a wrist injury. Welcome to Chiff and Fipple and feel free to post in Spanish. There are many linguists on the Forum.
Mike Burns

[kenny]

“Na Fili” ‘s recordings are as follows, according to a Record Collector’s Price book I have:

“Farewell To Connaught” - Outlet label SOLP1010 – RELEASED 1971
“A Kindly Welcome” - Dolphin label DOL1008 – RELEASED 1974
“Na Fili 3” - Outlet label SOLP1017 – RELEASED 1973 [ ? ]
“Chanter’s Tune” - Transatlantic label TRA353 – RELEASED 1977
“One Day For Recreation” [ with Sean O’Se ] – Circa label 003 – RELEASED 1980

[Cathy Wilde]

Tomás Ó Canainn's (pronounced "O'Cannon") email:

www.tocanainn@eircom.net

Website, where he has some things available:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~tocanainn

Send him a note; he's an absolutely lovely man and might be able to help you find some of Na Fili's stuff from somewhere. If you get a chance, send him Cathy W from Kentucky's regards.

Good luck!

[Jennie]

Bienvenido Angel,

Na Fili was a familiar name, and I found that they're on an old cassette that someone recorded for me. Beyond that I can't add anything.

What _does_ happen to old traditional musicians?

They don't die, they just ...... ?

Jennie

[Cathy Wilde]

Well, as of November, Tomás was alive and well at 75ish and hauling his pipes across the Atlantic for a mutual friend's wedding (the duffel bag as pipe-case was a nice touch). And he seemed to be having a great time.

(He also writes murderously good poetry.)

So I think life goes on .... probably a lot like when your kids grow up.

Edited to add: Tomás was the piper in Na Fili.

[Tony McGinley]

Tomás Ó Canninn (Tom Canning) is a very old friend of mine (since the 1960 ies) and the only one I really know from Na Filí (the poets - lit.)



Tomás has a web site - worth a look anyway - with links including a telephone number. He is a most helpful and friendly man, I am sure he will be happy to point you in the right direction.

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~tocanainn/index.html

[Cathy Wilde]

I like his website's "counter" the best:

>>My I.T. intuition tells me that you are the umpteenth visitor to my site! You are very welcome<<

I only met him over the course of a long weekend but had the privilege to talk to and have a few tunes with him, and he really is one of the neatest people I've ever met. Thank you for the story and Na Filí translation, Tony, and all best to Tomás and Helen!

OK, Angel, it's decided. You need to talk to the man.

[fel bautista]

I wanted to SOOO me him when I was in Cork in 2003. Chair of engineering and Music at the same time from what I understand. My daughter was doing junior year abroad and picked UCC. One of her roomies was a music major that did some science and we wound up talking about Tomas one afternoon. He was suprised I knew who Tomas was. I bought one of his later CDs and a music book at Ossian's. One of the tunes was the "Z-transform reel" or some such thing. I thought " anyone who would write a piece of music about a math function is one odd puppy-I need to go meet him!!"