Tommy Peoples via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Tommy Peoples
- City: St Johnston, County Donegal
- Country: Ireland
Current News
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What's Up?
Tommy Peoples has just published a new book, Ó Am go hAm – From Time to Time: Tutor, Text and Tunes by Tommy Peoples.
The book is a fascinating 400-page compendium which includes a detailed fiddle tutor with notation and illustrations by Tommy, as well as a collection of 130 of Tommy’s original compositions, again with notation by Tommy.
The book also includes insights into Tommy’s life and musical journey through text which explains the titles of his compositions, accompanied by related images and photographs.
The book is now available directly from Tommy, who will personally sign each copy. The price is inclusive of postage. If more than one copy is ordered, please indicate by email to Tommy at tommypeoples@eircom.net the name of the person you would like each book signed to.
The book can be purchased using PayPal below and choosing the proper postal destination. If you would prefer to pay by cheque you can write to Tommy at:
Kinny Cally,
St. Johnston,
County Donegal,
Ireland.
Please be sure to make cheques payable to Tommy Peoples, and include your full postal address and email address.
Further information on the site, below!
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Tommy Peoples is a fiddler from County Donegal (born in 1948), where he spent his early years immersed in the style which remains his today. As a teenager he went to live and work in Dublin, becoming part of the traditional music scene.
He worked and recorded with several bands, before joining The Bothy Band, with whom he stayed for about a year-and-a-half, participating in the recording of one of the biggest selling album of traditional Irish music of all time (for which he was never paid). A number of recordings with various ensembles have taken place since then.
Tommy lived for a number of years in Ennis, County Clare, an area renowned for its traditional music, before moving back to St Johnston, the village he is from. His daughter Siobhán is a noted fiddler also.
Tommy has passed away. Rest in Power Tommy Peoples!
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Website: http://www.tommypeoples.ie
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCz7bfO3YcZwVC-IYgmlb-2w
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5OoAqGg9bn3SaPPtSWCIKR
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/0QSZhTq2WXldtkMapI7Bw3
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/7lll8KPEGbAgH8gqf108Vo
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
