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Jim Morrison was born in Drumfin on the Coach Road to Sligo near Riverstown
on 3rd May, 1893. His father had a small farm and made an additional living as a builder and carpenter
This was great fiddle and flute and country-house dance country and, while there was music in the family,
it was all around him in the wider community.....At the age of seventeen he was employed by the
Gaelic League to teach the Connacht style of stepdancing at their language school in County Mayo.
He sailed to America in 1915 at the age of Twenty-one and, after a brief stay in Boston,
moved to New York, where he won the fiddle competition in the New York Feis in 1918.
He taught dancing and fiddle and one of his pupils was Paddy Killoran from his home area...
Later they were to work together professionally. Jim Morrison made many records between 1921
and 1936.
This recording is Track 16 from
Past Masters of Irish Fiddle Music
Topic Records Item: TSCD605
Flax in Bloom - The Millstone - Dairy Maid's Reel
March, 1926; New York
The Millstone is also known as "College Groves"
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Riverstown Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann, and the annual Morrison Festival in Sligo, Ireland
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