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IT'S A long way from the village dance halls of County Clare to concert stages as far apart as Seattle and Shanghai, but Martin Hayes paid his dues as a time-served fiddle player, helping to power dancers round the floors of the former long before he became acknowledged as one of the most significant Irish fiddlers of his generation, attracting international acclaim, particularly in partnership with master guitarist Dennis Cahill, with whom he has played since the 1980s.
Listen to the pair's current album, Welcome Here Again (Green Linnet) and even the uninitiated will be struck by the spare, almost meditative, approach Hayes takes to these traditional reels and slip jigs, largely one tune per track, paring them down to the bones and sinews of each tune.See the full content of this document
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Perfect Paring
Yet catching them in concert, as audiences at Edinburgh's Fiddle 2010 festival will do this weekend at the Assembly Rooms, becomes a different yet just as mesmerising experience, as from such unhurried, ruminative beginnings, Hayes gradually fans these tunes into a slow bur...
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