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3.0 out of 5 stars
Up the Nineties! (whatever that means),
By Andrew S. Rogers (Stamford, Connecticut) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Wallup!: Malachy Bodhran Chats about the Humour and Lore of Bodhran Making and How to Play (Hardcover)
Malachy Kearns, a/k/a Malachy Bodhrán, is a maker of the traditional Irish drum known as the bodhrán (it's always capitalized in this book). In fact, he seems to be one of the best, and best known, such makers, having provided the drums for "Riverdance" and many well-known Celtic musicians.
This book is one part marketing piece for his business (he admits this up front, and the book includes order forms), one part memoirs, and one large part rhapsody to his love of bodhráns and bodhrán-making. Much of the book was spoken into a tape recorder as Malachy was working, and later transcribed by his wife, and so it has a remarkably relaxed and chatty tone. It's much the way you'd expect an Irish storyteller to sound. In fact, it reminded me strongly of "Bringing Up the Brass," Irish-immigrant Marty Maher's celebrated memoirs of his career at West Point (later made into the John Ford movie "The Long Gray Line"), which were also spoken aloud for later transcription. A friend gave me this book more or less as a joke, but it turned out to be a moderately entertaining breeze-through. I suppose it would be of most interest to bodhrán-players, lovers of Celtic music, and/or people who have visited Bodhrán's shop in Roundstone, County Galway.
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