![]() ![]() And even the Clancy's on thisĮnd we met Tom and Paddy, and they were not singing at all, they wereĪcting. ![]() ![]() Jimmy MacBeth, and Jeanie Robertson, and all the other people, they Pull the chair out for me when I get back there. ![]() I'veīeen promised lots of cups of tea, and lots of people said they will Meeting so many wonderful women, singers, and instrumentalist. I'm doing something similar right now, with this project. We had a great time because they were all such great people. Some were very obscure, and they led us to other people that Ennis and Kennedy had not seen. When we went to London we became good friends with Seamus and Peter, and they gave us names of all the people they visited. Their son, Peter Kennedy, and Seamus Ennis, had been working together collecting throughout Ireland and England and Scotland for the BBC Archives. So, when we wanted to go over and do our Fullbright Scholarship tour, they gave us names. I was there, and we met and became good friends. They came over to the summer camp at Pine Woods, in Massachusetts. Jean Ritchie: On this end, I knew Douglas and Helen Kennedy from the Cecil Sharp House, the folklore people. When you went to England and Ireland in 1952/53 to trace the traditional songs, how did you find out which people to talk to when you got there? You found some very obscure people. An excerpt from " Celtic Women in Music" by Mairéid Sullivan ![]()
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