Richie Piggott

Irish Music Historian & Author

For the past twelve years, Richie has been researching and collecting the legacies of traditional musicians of the Irish diaspora in Chicago. He has now written and published a book, entitled Cry of a People Gone, covering Irish musicians in Chicago from 1920-2020.
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Cry of a People Gone

Piggott augments and extends O'Neill's documentation into the 21st century... an impressive amount of information... a rich, detailed view of the lives of people who came from Ireland and made a life in Chicago...  Piggott's work is sure to become a classic in Irish musical history and preserves the legacy of those who loved, collected and played Irish music.
​– Irish Edition (Nov. 2022)

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Come Over the Mountain Road (Pt. 1)
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Exploring Irish traditional music & musicians of
South Sligo/East Mayo
with James Murray, Tubbercurry

Over the last year I visited James Murray on three separate occasions. This was prompted in part by my interest in documenting, preserving and openly sharing the history of our traditional music, song and storytelling and in part when I learnt of James’ willingness to share his lifetime of memories playing Irish music. James is a fiddle & flute player for over 70 years and during that time he has collected the history of Irish music of his own and many previous generations of musicians in the South Sligo & East Mayo region of Ireland.

This is Part 1 of what will be a multi-part series of my meetings with James, which I hope you will enjoy.
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Richie Piggott, Chicago  

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