Matt Cranitch

Irish fiddle player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroIrish fiddle player
PlacesIreland
isFiddler
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
Genres:Music of ireland
Instruments:Violin Fiddle
Birth1948
Age77 years
The details

Biography

Matt Cranitch (b. 1948) is an Irish fiddle player. Cranitch is a founding member of Na Fili. He is a graduate in electrical engineering and music from University College Cork, lectures at the Cork Institute of Technology on subjects of electronic engineering and music technology. He has a particular involvement in the music of Sliabh Luachra, on the Cork/Kerry border, and is engaged in on-going research on the fiddling style of this region at the Irish World Music Centre, University of Limerick. He has written extensively on Irish traditional music. He has also been a member of the band Sliabh Notes.

He currently lives in Cork.

See also Na Fili Discography.

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