The Blind Bard of Belfast: Carl Gilbert Hardebeck (1869-1945)

In some humble céili house in the west of Ireland long ago the musician put his fiddle down to give the dancers a rest. It was time for the ‘singer of the household’ to take the floor, drawing from oral tradition sustained down the centuries in elemental form by echoes of ancestral voices. An itinerant ... Read more

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