NEW EDIT "ARDARA FLEADH CHEOIL & AROUND WEST DONEGAL 1970"

NEW EDIT ARDARA FLEADH CHEOIL & AROUND WEST DONEGAL 1970
ARDARA AND WEST DONEGAL 1970. OLD MOVIE TO VIDEO (NOT TOO WELL DONE) THAT I TOOK IN THAT AREA AT THE TIME. SHOTS START FROM TOP OF THE "RODA" HILL BEHIND CRONKEERIN AND MEENTINEADEA AND GLENDOAN AND GORTNACART CAN BE SEEN IN THE DISTANCE TOWARDS GLENTIES. OLD FRIENDS LIKE THE LATE WILLIE LONG AND FAMILY AND MANY FAMILIAR FACES AT THE FLEADH APPEAR AS WELL AS NARIN STRAND, PORTNOO PIER, AND A VARIETY OF OTHER AREAS INCLUDING A PART OF A FOOTBALL GAME AT TIRCONAILL PARK, DONEGAL TOWN, (ARDARA WON MINOR FINAL) UNTIL IT FINISHES IN CRONKEERIN WITH THE FAMOUS "WILLIE PAT" BOYLE TAKING IN THE HAY FROM THE PARK TO BUILD THE HAY STACK FOR THE WINTER WITH HIS 'FAMOUS TRACTOR' ASSISTED BY MY BROTHER KIERAN KEENEY. MY FATHER PLAYS THE ACCORDION AS MY MOTHER MILKS THE COW !!. APPEARANCES ALSO OF OUR GREAT LATE FRIEND CHARLIE BENNETT (GOLF CHIPS ). MY COUSIN AND MUSICAL PARTNER AT THE TIME PETER OLIVER (MC NELIS). MUSICAL BACKGROUND TRACKS FROM THE LATE FIDDLE PLAYERS JAMES BYRNE (CARRICK) JOHN “THE TAE” GALLAGHER, JAMES JOSIE MC HUGH (ARDARA) AND THE TALENTED PLAYER AND COMPOSER AND ARDARA HONOURED MATT MC GRANAGHAN (CASTLEFIN). NEEDLESS TO SAY NO ROYALTY CLAIMS ON MY PART. There are two Fleadh Cheoil’s the first on 27th. July 1969 (Donegal Fleadh) and 25th. July 1970 (Ulster Fleadh which ran for 3 days ( 23rd., 24th. and 25th. July 1970).