Willie Clancy (December 24, 1918 - January 1973) was an Irish uilleann piper. Events 563 - The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by Earthquakes Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world
Clancy was born into a musical family in Miltown Malbay, County Clare. Miltown Malbay ( is a Village in the west of County Clare, Ireland, next to Spanish Point. County Clare ( Irish: Contae an Chláir) commonly referred to as simply Clare, is a county on Ireland and part of the wider His parents both sang and played concertina, and his father also played the flute. A concertina is a free-reed Musical instrument, like the various Accordions and the Harmonica. The flute is a Musical instrument of the Woodwind family Unlike other woodwind instruments a flute is a Reedless wind instrument that produces its Clancy's father had been heavily influenced by local blind piper Garret Barry (d. 1900).
Willie started playing the whistle at age 5, and later took up the flute. The tin whistle, also called the tinwhistle, whistle, pennywhistle or Irish whistle, is a simple six-holed Woodwind instrument He first saw a set of pipes in 1936 when he saw Johnny Doran playing locally. He obtained his first set of pipes two years later. His influences included Leo Rowsome, Séamus Ennis, John Potts, and Andy Conroy. Leo Rowsome ( 5 April 1903 &ndash 20 Sept 1970 was an Irish teacher performer and maker of Uilleann pipes. Séamus Ennis ( 5 May 1919 &ndash 5 October 1982) was an Irish piper singer and folk-song collector Clancy won the Oireachtas competition in 1947. The Oireachtas (ɛrʲaxt̪ˠasˠ is the "national parliament" or Legislature of Ireland, sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann.
Clancy married Dóirín Healy in 1962. The Willie Clancy Summer School was established in his honour in 1973. The Willie Clancy Summer School ( Irish Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy) is Ireland 's largest traditional music Summer school, held annually since
Discography
- The Minstrel from Clare (Green Linnet)
- The Pipering of Willie Clancy, Vol. 1 (Claddagh Records)
- The Pipering of Willie Clancy, Vol. 2 (Claddagh Records)
- The Drones and the Chanters Vol. 1
References
- Mitchell, Pat, Dance Music of Willie Clancy, Ossian Publications. ISBN 0-946005-72-9. Contains 152 of Clancy's tune settings.
- Vallely, Fintan (1999), The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-8802-5.
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