Folk giants stand tall with Sliabh Luachra gem

Eoin Edwards talks to Cork fiddler Matt Cranitch about his latest collaboration with Jackie Daly

It may sound like a tall story but a three foot dwarf features, in a roundabout way, on one of the tracks from a new CD just released by two of the giants of folk music, Jackie Daly and Matt Cranitch.

Originally a hornpipe, ‘Durang’s Barndance’ was composed for the American dancer and entertainer John Durang (1768-1821) by a Mr Hoffmaster, a German dwarf, in New York in 1785.