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The screening, at Rory Dolan’s Restaurant, Bar & Caterers in Yonkers, is being organized by the association in collaboration with Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, an organization based in Ireland that promotes traditional Irish music abroad.
The documentary details the lives of the three musicians who came to New York during the early 1900s, making the first recordings of Irish traditional music and raising an awareness of Irish culture in America.
The film depicts their fame as recording artists, the influence their recordings had on their peers and on the generations that came after, and how the Crash of 1929 affected the industry and the fiddlers’ professional and personal lives.
White Plains resident and fiddle player Brian Conway, who frequently performs at Dunne’s Pub, pays tribute to the fiddlers in the documentary as well as the “Sligo style” of fiddling, which has become synonymous among New York’s Irish fiddle players.
The purpose of the screening is also to launch Fleadh Cheoil Sligo 2015 (translated as Music Festival of Ireland), a nine-day jamboree of music, song and dance that will be held Aug. 9-16 in County Sligo.
The screening will take place at 7 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults; children under 16 are free. A traditional music session will follow the screening. All musicians are welcome to attend. A limited number of DVDs will be available for purchase during the event.
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