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Lucy Farr (Co. Galway, Ireland)

 (photo courtesy of Rambling House)    (photo courtesy of Reg Hall)  

                                                                                                                   (Lucy Farr plays a session with Joe Whelan)

        Lucy Farr was born in Ballinakill, County Galway and it was there she took up the fiddle. Between the mid-1930s, when she left home, and the early 1950s she stopped playing due to the demands of bringing up a family and working as a nurse. Then with the encouragement of her husband she re-discovered her musical interests and subsequently, figured prominently in London Irish music circles from  the 1960s on. She was thought by many to be one of the inspirational music to come out of these times. (John Howson)

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