Within A Mile Of Kilty: Traditional Irish Music From North Leitrim

Kiltyclogher is a village of about 150 souls on the Leitrim/Fermanagh border. Over the past 80 years or so, it’s been home to a notable cluster of fiddlers: brothers Charlie and Ben Lennon, Ben’s son Maurice Lennon (of Stockton’s Wing fame), Séamus Quinn, Brian Rooney and the late John Gordon, who passed away in 2002, shortly after his contributions to this fascinating CD were recorded. Maurice’s brother David Lennon has spent four decades recording the tracks assembled here, but the quality is remarkably consistent, with spirited accompaniment from Altan’s Ciarán Curran on cittern, Beginish’s Noel O’Grady on bouzouki, Frank Kilkelly on guitar and Gabriel McArdle on concertina.