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2 unusual facts about Peter Kennedy


Brigid Tunney

In 1952, when her son Paddy was contacted by Seán O Boyle and Peter Kennedy regarding being recorded for the BBC, he persuaded the folk collectors to travel to his home district of Mulleek in north-west Fermanagh where, over two days, he arranged to have as many of the local musicians and singers as possible lined up and ready to go.

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Peter Kennedy later released these under the Folk Trax label as an album entitled The Mountain Streams.



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